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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1582)	4/22/2020 4:16:59 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Read Replies (1) of 22883

but I didn't interpret that as meaning we have to sacrifice people to save the economy. To an extent you have to (unless the measures that harm the economy have no benefit against the disease so there is no trade off to be made, but I doubt they are totally ineffective). There are always tradeoffs, not just easy answers. This is not to say you have to just open everything up now, or generally accept any amount of extra deaths however large for any amount of economic benefit. But at the margin things are going to be partially opened up at some point even though a few more people will probably catch the disease because of that. We're already making such trade offs with for example the large numbers of jobs that are considered essential and so not subject to the lock downs. You don't say "well sure an extra million people will die, but we will have .5% higher GDP then otherwise so lets go for it", but OTOH you also don't say "any amount of extra cost is worth it if it avoids one Covid-19 death".

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