And with that, they've achieved 86,200 cases, 5,850 deaths against a population of 10,100,000. That works out to 0.85% of the population infected and 0.05% of the population dying from it.
Applying those percentages to Australia's 25.5M population and you'd get:
217,000 cases and 14,772 deaths. Now, the statistical value of a human life is ~$4.6M AUD, so the
statistical value of those deaths is
only $67.9B AUD. I say "only" because the financial damage of the Government
response to COVID is
well over $100 Billion dollars so far. And it's still doing up... And that's not including the "human toll" families locked out of funerals, the mother who lost her unborn baby, the FIFO's (like me) who are on the cusp of losing their jobs because they are locked out of the state they work in, the small businesses and cafes who will go under...
But, hang on a minute, doesn't Australia still allow tobacco smoking? Which causes lung cancer? Which is almost entirely preventable by
not smoking? In 2019, there were
8,684 deaths from Lung or Bronchial cancer. Almost all of which could have been prevented by banning tobacco.
Reckon they'll do it?
