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Episode 186: Experiencing Higher Education

Words & Numbers

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The Cost of Locking Down the Economy

CNN's John Sutter is working on an article that delves into COVID numbers. Preliminary numbers are tending to point in a common direction, he says. The lockdown will cost over $10 trillion and have saved at best what appears to be less than half a million US lives,. But remember that almost 3 million Americans die each year just in the normal course of events.

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