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Good luck coming up with a good way to measure "harm" caused by lockdowns. As a thought experiment: Say you have a button. If you push it then it saves the li
by umvi 5y ago
Good luck coming up with a good way to measure "harm" caused by lockdowns.
As a thought experiment:
Say you have a button. If you push it then it saves the lives of 100 people that would have had a heart attack. However, it gives 1000 people random mental health problems from depression to anxiety to addictions. Do you push the button?
Or say you have another button. If you push it then it saves the lives of 100 people that would have had a heart attack. However, it financially cripples 1000 people (causes people to lose jobs, businesses, etc.). Do you push the button?
How to you balance "death" against other kinds of harms?
- drjasonharrison 5y agoIt's clear to me that these examples of trade offs assume a capitalist society without community supports. We can't push buttons to stop natural disasters but we can push buttons to limit the deaths due to wildfire, heat, floods, freezing, electricity and natural gas outages. But doing so requires governments and communities to be proactive and to pre-build resiliency into the communities.