Total fatality rate = covid19 fatality rate + economic distress death rate - reduced pollution life savings rate Integrate over decade, subtract from unmanaged pandemic rate to get lives saved, N Divide GDP depression G by N to get the value of a human life
Sure, that line of speculation is basically infinite so I won't go there. But it's more than just a floor. It is a measure of worth in the sense of that's what we are willing to pay. "True worth" is a solipsistic concept you can't do math with.
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There’s a whole literature on the value of statistical life if you want to go down a rabbit hole. But there are many real world interventions that save lives for a tiny cost and the conclusion is “oh, good”. A single cost/life with TBD parameters doesn’t get you there
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Sure, but most of those are factored into business-as-usual. A highly exceptional shutdown cost allows for some fairly isolated and useful math imo. Otherwise you're boiling the ocean.
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