On 14 Feb 2024 00:01:13 GMT, Gordon <
Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote:
For those of you interested in such things
https://number8.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Receipt-and-Dispatch-Data-OIA-21339-CRM0401037-Summary-3.pdf
Flow the links to the OIA which gives these figures.
Grand total $484,222,951, slightly shy of half a billion.
As we/they are still boostering away the amount is probably closer to the >half billion dollars.
That is absolutely great, Gordon. For policy estimation purposes, the
value of life has been given for some purposes as around $1 million -
in other words it is worth spending money to save lives, and in this
case we saved around 22,000 lives, giving a cost of $22,010.13 per
life saved . But the cost of the vaccine was not all of the cost of
the Covid response; let us suppose it was a quarter of the cost - that
would give us a cost per life of say $88.000 - still very worthwhile.
Looked at another way, what is the cost of canning the purchase of the
ferries for Cook Straight - well the direct cost is said to be about
$400 million, but some of that has gone into improvements to the wharf
and port buildings in Picton (although some of that may be wasted if
the ships we eventually buy don't quite fit the work . . .) - what
value are we getting for that?
So thanks for sending that information, Gordon - it does seem to
confirm that the spending for our Covid response was very very good
value for money. We can be thankful that the new Government has not
stopped the vaccines from being freely available - that would be very
very expensive . . .
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