WHAT’S MY ROI ON LOCKDOWN?

Nicholas Cooper
13 min readMar 19, 2021

When we make financial investments we tend to act completely selfishly. Even with ethical investments our aim is to make a return on the amount we put in. This article seeks to quantify lockdown as an ‘investment’ of pure self interest, variously for different age groups. Everyone has made sacrifices of their freedom and months of their lives to decrease the risk of death for everyone. But will our ‘return on investment‘ (ROI) be worth the…

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Nicholas Cooper

PhD in Statistical Genetics from the University of Cambridge. B Sc Psychology/Mathematics University of Sydney.