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When economic, social, health and environmental imperatives jostle for top spot in virtue, how can they be ranked? Some have recently advocated the return of face-mask mandates. “We can certainly stop it making as many mutations by stopping it infecting as many people – if we block its transmission, if we wear a mask, if we get vaccinated, if we do social distancing,” a health expert said. But is it without cost? “Buy a mask and let his family go hungry, or buy food and go out into the crowded city without one – that is the stark choice facing Hayatullah Khan, an Afghan labourer whose daily earnings have fallen below $1.50 during the coronavirus pandemic,” one journalist observed about poor countries. Yet for some there are no resource conflicts: tax the billionaires and give Hayatullah Khan a free mask, free food, or, preferably, both. Welcome to Woke economics, where payments are made in intentions and virtue pays for everything.
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