The socially acceptable answer rejects the very question: every life is priceless! That's the number statisticians use when figuring out where to distribute limited funds, or how strictly to set health and safety policies. And so, the lockdown has dragged into plain sight the taboo trade-offs we constantly make between life, liberty, and financial wellbeing. That's still an incredible sum of money: the equivalent of 30 KiwiBuilds, or 20 Provincial Growth Funds. Email Budget Buster at richard.meadows@thedeepdish.org, or hit him up on Facebook.

Source: Stuff March 28, 2020 16:52 UTC