Of course it's not a magic one resourceinto another; but public health exists in a resource and public actions constrained environment.
If you want to have optimal health outcomes, literally just ban cars overnight.
That will be a massive reduction in direct injury and death, mammoth reduction environmental illness, and huge boon to indirect health benifits; to a scale that dwarfs COVID. And that's before we talk about climate effect. Plus it evens out transportation for people with disabilities (who can't currently drive) with those without (who can drive).
Generally that effects of COVID are much lower now, particularly since most the population has been vaccinated and had covid.
Vulnerable people (young and old) still get free vaccines.
$150 is an administered cost, a vial is $115 wholesale. Since non-vuneable populations have limited negative health outcomes; is it worth $1,350,000,000 / year for one shot, or $2,700,000,000/yr for two shots?
A doctor in Québec has a salary of $200,000. Lets call it $500,000 to account for benefits and other associated costs.
Is giving every québécois a covid shot every year a better or worse health outcome than having 2,700 more doctors? Or 5,400 more doctors for two shots?
Thankfully we see a good samaritain providing some aid to the casualty.
We also see a cop talking to the driver IN THE CAR. If someone was assaulted with a baseball bat, I would home the cop would take away the bat before talking to them.
How that driver is allowed to stay in the vehicle is assanine to me.
I would buy a smart lock that has a locking, but no unlocking, function.
I've definitely forgotten to lock door(s) chasing after a toddler, something that would allow the locks to automatically lock behind me would be great.
Its also only a partial story as "damage done" doesn't directly relate to actual costs.
Take Ottawa as an example
Transitway is nothing but buses all day long, and that has an amortized annual cost of $42,100 per lane/km/year.
A local road that sees a couple hundred car trips a day costs $14,122 per lane/km/yr.
So that's 3× the capital cost for way way way more vehicles at 1-3,000x the "damage" per vehicle.
Bicycle lanes an amortized captial cost of around $5-1000 per lane/km/year (this number is REALLY hard to peg down due to all the different ways cities account for bike infrastructure and the type of infrastructure it is).
So a bike lane is somewhere between 14 to 3000x less expensive than a local road, despite 160,000x less "damage"
Of course it's not a magic one resourceinto another; but public health exists in a resource and public actions constrained environment.
If you want to have optimal health outcomes, literally just ban cars overnight. That will be a massive reduction in direct injury and death, mammoth reduction environmental illness, and huge boon to indirect health benifits; to a scale that dwarfs COVID. And that's before we talk about climate effect. Plus it evens out transportation for people with disabilities (who can't currently drive) with those without (who can drive).