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And yet governments worldwide ignored the cost-benefit of lockdowns and removing kids from schools. Perhaps it’s not such an obvious thing…

vosper 4y ago
Or their cost-benefit analysis said that the cost of removing kids from schools was worth it. Do you have any evidence of ignored cost-benefit studies that were available at lockdown decision time (there wasn’t much time for studies when these decisions needed to be made)?
- dial9-1 4y ago
  your second paragraph kinda answers itself
  - vosper 4y ago
    My parent said cost-benefit was ignored, not that it wasn’t considered.
  - strken 4y ago
    I don't think it does. If you have a ? in your cost-benefit spreadsheet for "cost in DALYs of locking down schools", the obvious solution (that one assumes governments actually used) is to ask your education expert for a guess and a confidence interval. Getting that estimate wrong is not the same as failing to consider it.
- WillPostForFood 4y ago
  Or their cost-benefit analysis said that the cost of removing kids from schools was worth it. Cost is incurred by the children who have no voice, so zero cost to decision makers. Benefit is to one of the largest donor groups to politicians, so also large benefit to decision makers. Cost/benefit to society, population at large, the country? Seems to be willfully ignored.
- jtc331 4y ago
  Not having any studies to ignore is by definition not doing cost benefit analysis.
  - thfuran 4y ago
    Or perhaps they considered the cost of studies and deemed it too high.
- kaczordon 4y ago
  There was plenty of evidence that COVID was not as dangerous to children as it was to elderly and yet politicians kept schools locked down. This is why many parents took their kids out of public school and into private schools which re-opened, or at least families that could afford it did. There has been a massive impact to school-age children and the development loss is massive. See this article from 2021: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/90658 https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/90658 Many of the studies referenced in that article are from 2020, yet schools had not re-opened. In addition to that the teachers union in the US influenced guidance by the CDC on school openings: https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails/ https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-wi...

vosper 4y ago

Or their cost-benefit analysis said that the cost of removing kids from schools was worth it. Do you have any evidence of ignored cost-benefit studies that were available at lockdown decision time (there wasn’t much time for studies when these decisions needed to be made)?

dial9-1 4y ago
your second paragraph kinda answers itself
- vosper 4y ago
  My parent said cost-benefit was ignored, not that it wasn’t considered.
- strken 4y ago
  I don't think it does. If you have a ? in your cost-benefit spreadsheet for "cost in DALYs of locking down schools", the obvious solution (that one assumes governments actually used) is to ask your education expert for a guess and a confidence interval. Getting that estimate wrong is not the same as failing to consider it.
WillPostForFood 4y ago
Or their cost-benefit analysis said that the cost of removing kids from schools was worth it. Cost is incurred by the children who have no voice, so zero cost to decision makers. Benefit is to one of the largest donor groups to politicians, so also large benefit to decision makers. Cost/benefit to society, population at large, the country? Seems to be willfully ignored.
jtc331 4y ago
Not having any studies to ignore is by definition not doing cost benefit analysis.
- thfuran 4y ago
  Or perhaps they considered the cost of studies and deemed it too high.
kaczordon 4y ago
There was plenty of evidence that COVID was not as dangerous to children as it was to elderly and yet politicians kept schools locked down. This is why many parents took their kids out of public school and into private schools which re-opened, or at least families that could afford it did. There has been a massive impact to school-age children and the development loss is massive. See this article from 2021: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/90658 https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/90658 Many of the studies referenced in that article are from 2020, yet schools had not re-opened. In addition to that the teachers union in the US influenced guidance by the CDC on school openings: https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails/ https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-wi...