Rough order of magnitude estimates suggest that corona will kill ten or so times as many people as a typical flu season by the spring of 2021. We have however s

Rough order of magnitude estimates suggest that corona will kill ten or so times as many people as a typical flu season by the spring of 2021. We have however spent hundreds of times as much on coronavirus mitigation than we ever did on flu mitigation in one year. This would imply that society places well over ten times the value on a life lost to covid than on a life lost to influenza.