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I mean, it's just frustration. You have to expect this from a novel disease once you realize its R0 has been characterized, it's greater than 2, it's airborne a
by mnl 7y ago
I mean, it's just frustration. You have to expect this from a novel disease once you realize its R0 has been characterized, it's greater than 2, it's airborne and asymptomatic patients can transmit it. What have been people expecting? I'm a physicist, I've seen this kind of growth. We also have this totalitarian principle which states that "Everything not forbidden is compulsory", I see no fundamental difference, it has to happen. Just don't act like in ordinary politics where problems can be waved away, Nature doesn't care about that.
- throwaway_pdp09 7y agoOh heck yes. ISWYM and that's the way I treated it - seriously, starting 2 months ago, for exactly those reasons. I just don't get it either, it's like head-meets-wall every time you try to tell anybody. It's so depressing. (what I thought you might have meant was a criticism of me misusing maths and you were getting pissed off telling people it was a sigmoid not an exponential).
- travisporter 7y agoISWYM - I see what you mean?
- throwaway_pdp09 7y agoYes. See http://muller-godschalk.com/acronyms.html http://muller-godschalk.com/acronyms.html for an excessively long list - I've not seen 90% of these but a few are useful.
- elorant 7y agoOK but how much larger than 2? Is it 2,5 or is it something like 5? Because the narrative so far doesn't fit the reality.