1. Really angry about this and, frankly, you should be, too.
Apart from the glaringly obvious fact that lives cannot and should not be reduced to a monetary value, how the eff do they KNOW how many lives were saved. The short answer is they don& #39;t!

2. They also don& #39;t know the value of those lives as they cannot predict what those people will go on to do. Perhaps without lockdown a person who would otherwise have eradicated world hunger or solved the climate crisis would& #39;ve died.

3. We& #39;re more than a few numbers. The idea that the lockdown wasn& #39;t worth it is eugenics. It& #39;s a slippery and steep slope and we need to make sure we never go down it.

P.S. if the "leading economist" is Minford, disregard this thread - the man& #39;s an walking insult to economists