Thank you for the feedback and compliments. Here are some brief responses to points 1, 2, and 4:
In response to 1:
Yes, this definitely seems true.
In response to 2:
Mine does. This seems to be the case for many people in the US, at least. I would guess that private insurance companies would be more diligent about actually doing cost-benefit analyses on these sorts of issues than the people behind governmental insurance programs, though I would hope that e.g. the NHS in the UK wouldn’t be too blind to the fact that conducting cost-benefit analyses of various interventions is a good idea.
I think that many people value their own lives as being worth more than the payout of their life insurance policy. A quick Google search makes it look like typical life insurance policies pay 250,000 to 1,000,000 USD, while I estimated the average person as valuing their life at 5,000,000 USD in the analysis.
In response to 4:
This is a fair criticism. I think that this would be a good reason to get vaccinated in October, or early November, before quite as many people tend to be sick.
Thank you for the feedback and compliments. Here are some brief responses to points 1, 2, and 4:
In response to 1:
Yes, this definitely seems true.
In response to 2:
Mine does. This seems to be the case for many people in the US, at least. I would guess that private insurance companies would be more diligent about actually doing cost-benefit analyses on these sorts of issues than the people behind governmental insurance programs, though I would hope that e.g. the NHS in the UK wouldn’t be too blind to the fact that conducting cost-benefit analyses of various interventions is a good idea.
I think that many people value their own lives as being worth more than the payout of their life insurance policy. A quick Google search makes it look like typical life insurance policies pay 250,000 to 1,000,000 USD, while I estimated the average person as valuing their life at 5,000,000 USD in the analysis.
In response to 4:
This is a fair criticism. I think that this would be a good reason to get vaccinated in October, or early November, before quite as many people tend to be sick.