Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
by mlyle on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:55PM
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> Sharing limited resources is a major role of the government, and managing hospital capacity seems to fall under “promote general welfare” to me.
Sure. It's a pretty delicate balance between individual liberties and preventing bad collective outcomes, though.
If you lock down 340 million people for a week-- maybe the net effect is stealing 3.5 days of life's "enjoyment" or "quality" from each. That's 3.3 million years of quality life taken.
You need to save 20 years of quality life for 165,000 people to break even. In the first wave we probably exceeded that benefit, but it's highly doubtful any subsequent time passes that bar.
And, IMO, if there's ever anything close to a "tie", you need to favor individual liberty.
Maybe making people mask "costs" 0.2 days per week-- much smaller cost, but also a smaller effect. I think it's still justified, but only barely... It won't be soon.
Sure. It's a pretty delicate balance between individual liberties and preventing bad collective outcomes, though.
If you lock down 340 million people for a week-- maybe the net effect is stealing 3.5 days of life's "enjoyment" or "quality" from each. That's 3.3 million years of quality life taken.
You need to save 20 years of quality life for 165,000 people to break even. In the first wave we probably exceeded that benefit, but it's highly doubtful any subsequent time passes that bar.
And, IMO, if there's ever anything close to a "tie", you need to favor individual liberty.
Maybe making people mask "costs" 0.2 days per week-- much smaller cost, but also a smaller effect. I think it's still justified, but only barely... It won't be soon.