[fanofourforebears]

According to researchers from HEC Paris business school and Bocconi University in Milan, it cost the American economy $169 billion and saved an additional 29,000 lives, about $6 million per life.

https://news.yahoo.com/169-bn-29-000-liv...40202.html

This kind of reporting and study reminded me of this scene from Back to School. 
Economics 101 scene from back to school
Are we going to just believe this it true without questioning things?  Where is the investigative journalism in reporting on the study?  Where is the link to the study and the support for the number of lives saved and the total cost to the economy?  Is Government spending, the cost of not being able to do such and such, being forced to do such and such, and the ruin of many a small business included in the total cost arrived at by the HEC Paris study?

[fanofourforebears]

According to researchers from HEC Paris business school and Bocconi University in Milan, it cost the American economy $169 billion and saved an additional 29,000 lives, about $6 million per life.

https://news.yahoo.com/169-bn-29-000-liv...40202.html

This kind of reporting and study reminded me of this scene from Back to School. 
Economics 101 scene from back to school
Are we going to just believe this it true without questioning things?  Where is the investigative journalism in reporting on the study?  Where is the link to the study and the support for the number of lives saved and the total cost to the economy?  Is Government spending, the cost of not being able to do such and such, being forced to do such and such, and the ruin of many a small business included in the total cost arrived at by the HEC Paris study?