I did this unholy mashup of many data sources in response to Brooke van Velden's opinion we spent too much stopping deaths. There is a pandemic measure sensitive to the age of death - Years of Life Lost, and (with the assumption the existing health system matters). Nobody did better for cheaper...
Thank you so much, David. You're an absolute data comms treasure!
Nice! Can I ask, is the bottom axis ‘per year’ or ‘total spend over the lifetime of the person’?
Also "Lockdowns compared: tracking governments’ coronavirus responses Updated DECEMBER 24 2022 by FT Visual & Data Journalism Team" In 2020 to the end of 2022 we had significant periods at a lower level of lockdown & considering NZ had 56 COVID-19 deaths from start of 2020 till the end of 2021. 🇳🇿📉
From business closures to movement restrictions, how countries’ policies around the world are changing
Amazing. Will you write this up as an article?
This needs to be tattooed on their foreheads so they can't just talk shit
... For the "acceptable losses" argument I added pricing of a year of life based on MoT Value of Statistical Life, but flipped from "Amount willing to spend to save a life" to "Lives willing to lose to save money"- any countries below the orange line had economically "acceptable" loses vs NZ.
Aha! Proof