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By a dollar and five cents, according to your calculation. That doesn't seem even worth the time talking about it.
If that many assumptions are slanted in the direction of conclusion A, and the data is still in favour of conclusion B, even by such a minor amount, then that suggests that conclusion B is (significantly) liklier to be the correct course of action than A.
In other words, once we start factoring in the potential cost of death; the cost to society of your spreading the flu further; assuming an immune system suitable to a human and not to Hercules; then that dollar and five cents is likely to grow to a respectable sum.
Unless he has an above-average income to go with his above-average immune system.
Wasn't the time to take it included in the costs analysis?
Yes, but not the time to read the discussion we're all having. In personal finances, $1.05 is below noise level for anyone not in grinding poverty. I can save that by skipping a coffee.