The study estimates saving 52,000 American lives, and the costs of nearly 2.6 million infections and 244,000 hospitalizations.
Now let's use those same calculations to estimate the orders of magnitude more money they've wasted allowing people to be infected, hospitalized, and die because their egos -- and liability concerns -- have imprisoned them in an infinite loop of denial and negligence.
And if it's true that the US has been seeing 400k infections per day during the 'lull' this spring, 2.6M isn't even a week's worth of infections. 👀
Seriously, how much does a good disposable respirator cost, again? $2, if you're getting ripped off by a govt contractor? Even if all 350M USians used a brand new one every day, that's still not quite $5B a week. Worst case. (elastos for a year would cost less than 1/20th of that)