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To anyone who says you can't put a price on human life, why did we just start thinking that in March 2020? We price human lives any time we build a new highway. Companies price out human lives when they decide whether to do a recall (e.g. 100 projected dead at 5 million tort liability per death, versus cost of recall).
This coronavirus response is pricing lives higher than we ever have before. If it costs 10 trillion to save a million lives, that's 10 million per life.
To clarify, I don't support putting a price on life. It sounds wrong and it is wrong. I'm observing that 1) society already puts a price on life, and 2) that price seems to skyrocket within the specific context of COVID-19
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