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I'm looking at figures of government spending and wondering if anyone has run the numbers on this stuff.

There's a lot of estimation involved but for say 30,000 lives saved, with $300bn a year in costs, that's $10m annually to save a single person dying (at an average age in the mid 80's for covid).

Do people honestly think that's a reasonable burden to shoulder future generations with? Basically no one will pay even a small fraction of that in tax for their entire lives.

Keen to see what people think.