California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining

Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by greedo on Sunday April 19, 2020 @11:29AM (#22916538)

Your calculus is off. The $2T spent (not $6T) is not for the 40k deaths, but for preventing 400K additional deaths. At $5K per saved life, well worth it. If you want to fault the spending, talk to Congress and the WH about why it's so misallocated.

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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by nostromo on Sunday April 19, 2020 @01:46PM (#22917430)

You’re not including the fed balance sheet, which is much larger than the stimulus.

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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by greedo on Sunday April 19, 2020 @07:05PM (#22919543)

Assuming that none of the $4T added to the balance sheet won't be recovered (highly unlikely), then we spent $15K per life. Still a bargain.

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