Money is not good at capturing the value of potential. It is one thing when talking about fungible goods, just things of which any two can be compared and eval

Money is not good at capturing the value of potential. It is one thing when talking about fungible goods, just things of which any two can be compared and evaluated. A box of crackers, maybe a brand of crackers. A donut versus a cookie or some other snack; compared to a healthy food or complex meal of some degree. Money is supposed to be good at valuing things that are willing to be traded. This is why placing money on quality of life, and on medical care, and the basics needed to live is unethical. Ability to pay does not assess value. As far as I know, in more morally aligned countries, waiting lists for 'spare' organs (from the recently no longer in need of them) are based mostly on who is within reach of viable transfer completion, first in 'line' first received. If our medical technology were better even that wouldn't be necessary. Those lines would see output from growth fabs and be fulfilled in that order. Emergencies are one thing; triage is used by doctors to take a logical, predetermined, approach to making decisions no one should ever have to make. They're going to suck anyway. The current global pandemic is a different kind of emergency. It's like some comic book villain has a death ray that turns n% of the population into sub-critical masses of radioactive material. Get enough together and there will be 'clicks' (on a Geiger Counter), maybe cancer. Get even more together and there will be an actual explosion (hospitals overflowing). It's a __preventable__ emergency, where if people take the correct steps the risks are reduced or eliminated. * Every normal person wearing a mask that disrupts outward airflow and reduces the spread of exhaled particles, REDUCES the exposure risk of everyone else to that person. That's why __EVERYONE__ needs to wear a mask, not just some people. * The same is true for properly and fully washing hands, to reduce contact transmission. * An even more effective strategy is to limit, or even eliminate if possible, exposure between people. That's what everyone avoiding unnecessary in person meetings is about and why working from home (when possible) is the best strategy. The issue with that last step, however, is that our entire economy is absolutely not oriented to supporting that behavior. Major systemic changes are necessary to support it. Even things like the design of air-circulation which should be optimized to drive expelled particles down to the floors (much like in cleanrooms). At least in public spaces and work settings (including warehouses). Though it might be cheaper to have tele-operated robots controlled by workers in a videogame like way for the warehouses. If 'we' as a society respond to the global pandemic correctly, maybe we can even start to automate a lot of the jobs that can be done by robots and focus less on everyone working as much as they currently do.