Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ...
by wonderwonder on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:27PM
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That's just silly. You would get into the most ridiculous moral quandaries with thinking like that. If 75,000 people commute 1 hour each day on a highway and then someone offers to reconfigure the highway to cut the time in half and all he is asking for is the lives of 100 children, its a good trade!
At an avg lifespan of 78 years, 100 kids is ~68 million hours. 30 minutes saved a day / 261 days / year for 75,000 people is ~9.7 million hours a year, so after 7 years, it basically free. Except we would never do that because we don't measure human value in hours because the people in power would be free to make some really terrible optimizations.
You are right though, you did include cancers and I ignored it so we can call it a tie.
If there are ~1 million gym patrons in Ontario, then the gym lockdown (which is still ongoing) only needs to decrease a gym patron's lifespan by 10 days on average to be worse than COVID.
Also, I claimed cancer screenings + gyms combined. Hundreds of people get diagnosed with malignant tumors every day in Ontario and those tumors are now 3 months more advanced than they should be (and will be for a long time after the lockdown until the queues for medical care clear up).