SA cannot afford to try to extend everyone’s life indefinitely
There is no empirical justification for retaining the Covid-19 lockdown or for the president’s claim 80,000 lives have been saved by the lockdown
25 May 2020 - 14:23
There are a number of uncomfortable questions everybody seems to be afraid of asking about the Covid-19 pandemic, and the economic havoc it is causing in the lives of healthy, hard-working people: how much is a life worth, and to what extremes are we prepared to go to save everybody?
What is the true human, economic, social and medical cost of hunger, social instability and protests, unemployment, business closures, malnutrition and lack of education as a result of hard lockdown or nonsensical, bureaucratic “risk-adjusted” rules?..
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