The assumption is also that hacker news readers are not subjected to fear mongering but I guess that assumption of mine was also comical. Assumptions here obvi

The assumption is also that hacker news readers are not subjected to fear mongering but I guess that assumption of mine was also comical. Assumptions here obviously won’t be 100% accurate given it’s a simulation conducted 2 months before outbreak. The point of this exercise is “what if” and seeing if useful extrapolations can be drawn from tweaking the variables.