Lessons from Covid – Yuval Noah Hariri

Hariri writes "when deciding whether to impose a lockdown, it is not sufficient to ask: “How many people will fall sick with Covid-19 if we don’t impose the lockdown?”. We should also ask: “How many people will experience depression if we do impose a lockdown? How many people will suffer from bad nutrition? How many will miss school or lose their job? How many will be battered or murdered by their spouses?”. And that's the least of it.

In other words, run a cost/benefit analysis, something many governments including the British, lamentably failed to do. Is it too much to ask that governments should get evidential support for a policy decision of such magnitude?

We know the arguments for, here are some against: https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-co...