@Doug64 , you replied to me in such a manner that tells me that you are simply not willing to understand, rather than simply being ignorant. You say;
That's the question, but there's nothing "rotten and ghoulish" about the calculus, it's called thinking like an economist, and who gets to make the decision.
This tells me you know nothing of true economies in the real world (as Libertarians often are too ideological about it, prefer the Austrian school, etc...), nor of ''who gets to make the decision''
And on that last point, why is that so? To quote Carl Schmidt;
''Sovereign is he who decides 'the exception'''. In the Libertarian fantasy, the individual atomized man of society is Sovereign. This cannot be, or one would have no society to speak of at all, (and for the Christian, God Himself is Sovereign.) There's always someone above you or below you, to be responsible for, or responsible to.
Avoid that reality at your peril.
For private ownership of cars, ~40,000 a year is clearly below the threshold. For the flu, ~50,000 is clearly below that threshold. In both cases we've regularly lost at least that many without anyone seriously calling for banning cars or so much as mask mandates, much less shutting down schools, etc.
Again, a confusion of ideas, with things being an extension of one's individual will via ''Private Property'', an extension of one's alleged ''self-ownership'' Automobiles, when used properly, will attain the objective of taking one where one needs to go. A Pandemic goes where it will, and cannot ever be made an extension of one's will. For the Hyper-Individualist/Libertarian, it's always about total control over one's immediate surroundings, and disease throws a monkey wrench into that idea, doesn't it?