Any externalities to the massive spike in despair deaths?
And externalities to robbing children of a normal life bc a bunch of fat old tyrants are scared?
Any externalities to lighting our dollar fire in order to strive for a zero covid Australia paradise?
Talking to academics is like talking to a first grader... But at least the first grader doesn't have his entire worldview spoofed to him
I'll point out that the New Orleans Jazz Festival just cancelled. “As a result of the current exponential growth of new COVID cases in the New Orleans and the region and the ongoing public health emergency, we must sadly announce that the 2021 edition of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell, scheduled to take place October 8 -17, 2021, will not occur as planned,” a statement via the festival’s Twitter account read.
I'm sure the organizers would have preferred to hold the event. But it made decision to do so given conditions in Louisiana. Lots of small businesses and musicians were hurt. If more people had gotten vaccinated and taken other low cost measures to reduce the spread of the virus this would not have happened.
There are many other similar cancellations or reduced participation in various events that have similarly been harmful to small businesses. And some of that harm could be reduced by more people getting vaccinated or wearing a mask.
Another example is the New York Auto Show, which was also cancelled. No one told the organizers to cancel. They simply felt they had to. "At the onset of planning for the August show, we were increasingly excited at the prospect of hosting the event as the number of vaccinations in New York continued to climb and mask-wearing reduced the spread in the city. All signs were positive, and the show was coming together stronger than ever, but today is a different story," the organizers said in a statement.
A lot of small businesses benefit from events like the New York Auto Show and the New Orleans Jazz Festival.
So I would say that the people who have not taken this virus seriously have contributed to a lot of harm to small businesses. It is part of their legacy. Helping to spread the virus and causing harm. It is quite a legacy. They are committing suicide by covid and causing a lot of collateral damage to small businesses and other innocent bystanders in the process.