Re:Why admitting Covid is Airborne is so hard
by exclusiv on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @04:36PM
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Because it's death and it's easy to understand over long covid.
And at the economic and government level, there exists a calculus for determining the "value" of a citizen to determine whether to address a situation.
There's a good Planet Money episode on this. [1]
"They say a human life is worth about $10 million."
It's a pretty messed up thing to try and determine, the dollar value of a person's life, but if you have to make tough policy decisions then it's a tool.
And at the economic and government level, there exists a calculus for determining the "value" of a citizen to determine whether to address a situation.
There's a good Planet Money episode on this. [1]
"They say a human life is worth about $10 million."
It's a pretty messed up thing to try and determine, the dollar value of a person's life, but if you have to make tough policy decisions then it's a tool.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/04/15/835571843/episode-991-lives-v...