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The subtitle of the paper "Was the Cure Worse than the Disease?" It seems like a possible alternate subtitle is "I value life lower than that of the US govt's $

The subtitle of the paper "Was the Cure Worse than the Disease?" It seems like a possible alternate subtitle is "I value life lower than that of the US govt's $10M/person [1], so I think we should have let more (poor) people die to save (the rich) some money." [1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/07/17/870483369/your-life-is-worth-10-million-according-to-the-government https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/07/17/870483369/your...

smitty1e 5y ago
I submit that a preferred course may be granting people the liberty to decide for themselves.
- benlivengood 5y ago
  > I submit that a preferred course may be granting people the liberty to decide for themselves. Individuals who can not spread covid-19 to other individuals should be afforded that liberty. Putting all of the burden of self-protection on individuals is too high a bar in a pandemic.
  - smitty1e 5y ago
    "Great life you's got there. Sure would be a crying shame if anything bad was to happen to it."
- over_bridge 5y ago
  "It's my liberty to kill as many people as I want through my negligence and personal entitlement as a carrier of a contagious disease"?
  - smitty1e 5y ago
    I count four or five objectionable points in your statement, bless your heart. However, one understands that the sun has set upon the days of reasonable debate among adults. Best wishes to you.
Rebelgecko 5y ago
I thought some of the analyses here[1] were interesting. The economic analysis wasn't the most compelling to me. What I thought was thought provoking was the ratio of months of lockdown to months of lives saved. IIRC it took something like 51 lockdown-months for each extra month of life saved due to COVID (although the math is a bit back-of-the-envelope) [1]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lockdown-effectiveness-much-more https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lockdown-effectiveness...

smitty1e 5y ago

I submit that a preferred course may be granting people the liberty to decide for themselves.

benlivengood 5y ago
> I submit that a preferred course may be granting people the liberty to decide for themselves. Individuals who can not spread covid-19 to other individuals should be afforded that liberty. Putting all of the burden of self-protection on individuals is too high a bar in a pandemic.
- smitty1e 5y ago
  "Great life you's got there. Sure would be a crying shame if anything bad was to happen to it."
over_bridge 5y ago
"It's my liberty to kill as many people as I want through my negligence and personal entitlement as a carrier of a contagious disease"?
- smitty1e 5y ago
  I count four or five objectionable points in your statement, bless your heart. However, one understands that the sun has set upon the days of reasonable debate among adults. Best wishes to you.

Rebelgecko 5y ago

I thought some of the analyses here[1] were interesting. The economic analysis wasn't the most compelling to me. What I thought was thought provoking was the ratio of months of lockdown to months of lives saved. IIRC it took something like 51 lockdown-months for each extra month of life saved due to COVID (although the math is a bit back-of-the-envelope) [1]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lockdown-effectiveness-much-more https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lockdown-effectiveness...