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by dial9-1 1216 days ago
your second paragraph kinda answers itself
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I don't think it does. If you have a ? in your cost-benefit spreadsheet for "cost in DALYs of locking down schools", the obvious solution (that one assumes governments actually used) is to ask your education expert for a guess and a confidence interval.

Getting that estimate wrong is not the same as failing to consider it.

My parent said cost-benefit was ignored, not that it wasn’t considered.