Originally Posted by
MickG0105
It would be nice to be able to reduce all factors to a dollar figure but that often proves difficult, to the extent that it remains one of the largely intractable problems with public policy to this day.
Could we perhaps agree that the costs of the mental health implications, curtailment of liberties and the like are roughly equivalent to the costs of the mental health implications, social dislocation and economic impacts associated with some 40,000-odd excess deaths over the period. That would solve one maths issue.
I'm chuffed to be able to expose some of the specious arguments of someone who's obviously a formidable intellect.
No: There is no automatic correspondence between the costs of the 'lockdown' and other restrictions imposed on the one hand and the lives saved on the other.
Your argument only begs the question.