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At the end of the day, hiding exponential growth of this is impossible. That's what really bugs me about those who love to point fingers at how this or that co
by svara 7y ago
At the end of the day, hiding exponential growth of this is impossible.
That's what really bugs me about those who love to point fingers at how this or that country is counting things wrong (often revealing their biases in the process).
Maybe every country has a random constant factor between actual cases and reported cases. But it doesn't matter - if it goes exponential, we'll know.
- gwern 7y agoYes, obviously once it goes exponential, exponentials are hard to hide. The point is to stop it before it goes exponential. That's why people were discussing, say, Iran or NYC testing problems and lack of social distancing, rather than saying "well, at the end of the day, hiding exponential growth is impossible, so who cares"...