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If you're going to be so disparaging of someone with such great contributions and intellect, it'd be nice if you could at least get the facts straight and not m
by mehrdadn 7y ago
If you're going to be so disparaging of someone with such great contributions and intellect, it'd be nice if you could at least get the facts straight and not muddy everything in your response. It's pretty impossible to comprehend what you're talking about and what's been so "misleading" about Tao's image, especially considering the "herd immunity" strategy (UK) is in many ways the diametric opposite of the "flattening the curve" approach (that of much of the rest of the world).
- schoen 7y agoI'm also confused about the notion of John Conway's COVID-19 case being a UK case. Although Conway was originally from the UK, the press and Wikipedia reports refer to his getting sick and dying in New Jersey, where he was a professor at Princeton.
- etrabroline 7y agoHere is an explanation of why the graph used by Tao on his blog is highly misleading: https://medium.com/@joschabach/flattening-the-curve-is-a-deadly-delusion-eea324fe9727 https://medium.com/@joschabach/flattening-the-curve-is-a-dea... A few days after Joshua Bach posted the above critique, the original "flatten the curve" blogger, Thomas Pueyo, basically echoed Bach's points and called it "the hammer and the dance." https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56 https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-th... The damage and confusion done by Pueyo's original graph is moot at this point, but it's been interesting to see how the FTC phrase has lived on. https://miro.medium.com/max/1340/1*PZesaMfoPxgYJBoQVtpmjQ.gif https://miro.medium.com/max/1340/1*PZesaMfoPxgYJBoQVtpmjQ.gi...