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This is equivalent to all the thousands of lies Trump said during three years. It's so unscientific and dangerous I wish you didn't belong to this community. Th

• thu2111 7y ago
  Dude, get a grip. In the unlikely event a random HN comment out of thousands has any impact at all, this sort of analysis will save people, as more accurate knowledge about the state of the world always does. You're forgetting that people are being asked to self-triage on a massive scale. I've seen a ton of false information about hospital capacity on HN in the last few days. Panic is contagious so a report like "hospitals in Lombardy may soon run out of capacity" gets changed within hours to "Italy ran out of capacity days ago" despite being false. Yes, I've seen that here on HN just within the last few days, and many similar examples. What happens if people wrongly think their hospitals can't take them? They either won't go or they'll go much later than they should have done, by which time they may require much more intensive care. If people accurately understand the state of play they can self-triage far more efficiently and safely. They can also push back against the mass hysteria that is quite visibly setting in, leading to better and more rational decisions that will end the epidemic quicker.