[JustAnotherFan]

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

Now imagine what if the effort wasn't undermined by public officials and opportunists who saw it as a way to strengthen their power at the expense of human lives. Imagine if it was an all hands on deck approach that would have saved an additional ... let's say 230,000 lives (and counting) and in doing so would have allowed the economy to have better weathered the storm. That would have been a steal from this cost per life approach, and from the 'what type of society do we want to live in' approach.

[JustAnotherFan]

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

Now imagine what if the effort wasn't undermined by public officials and opportunists who saw it as a way to strengthen their power at the expense of human lives. Imagine if it was an all hands on deck approach that would have saved an additional ... let's say 230,000 lives (and counting) and in doing so would have allowed the economy to have better weathered the storm. That would have been a steal from this cost per life approach, and from the 'what type of society do we want to live in' approach.