> The second cohort is a multiple in size of the first. That's a weird way of looking at it. The people who do $job provide food, energy, building materials et

> The second cohort is a multiple in size of the first. That's a weird way of looking at it. The people who do $job provide food, energy, building materials etc and taxes so some people can specialize on medical research. It would be terribly inefficient if we just switched over the majority of the population to medical research. I doubt they'd make much progress, and at the same time pulling them from their normal jobs would create a lot of problems that would make some 10 million excess deaths projection pale in comparison.