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Ok, a reply to my own rant, LOL. To be fair, the WaPo article is laced with caveats like ”without any measures to slow it down”, or ”If the number of cases wer
by 40four 7y ago
Ok, a reply to my own rant, LOL.
To be fair, the WaPo article is laced with caveats like ”without any measures to slow it down”, or ”If the number of cases were to continue to double every three days”. But there ARE measures to slow it down, and it certainly WON’T continue to double every three days.
This is really my gripe with these articles. I like the tech. The interactive ’simulations’ are cool & fun. But I worry they are only adding to the panic and confusion. I’ve had close friends spout ‘facts’ like this to me. Stuff like 60-70 of the population will be infected by the time it’s done.
- laputan_machine 7y agoThe UK government says worst case 80% of people are infected. That is absolute worst case, based on their modelling, so highly unlikely, but it is coming from the Chief Medical Officer himself. It is not panic.
- pavas 7y agoThis is assuming that we don't take quick and drastic action. Which is where we were as a country less than a week ago, and it didn't seem inevitable at the time that we were going to take this as seriously as we should be. These articles and tools warn of what will happen if we take the wrong path, and if they serve their purpose successfully will look overblown and unnecessarily alarmist once this is over.