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This is an astute point, elegantly stated.

• oldgradstudent 7y ago
  Vacous, but elegantly stated. In a small population like an aircraft carrier, the virus stops spreading exponentially very quickly.
  • jhayward 7y ago
    At roughly 10% infected the epidemic curve is in the steeply exponential portion of the curve, not the flattened end. And, as a request, perhaps you could glance at the 'principle of charity' and choose some other term than 'vacuous' to describe an argument that your response clearly did not give sufficient thought to.
    • oldgradstudent 7y ago
      > And, as a request, perhaps you could glance at the 'principle of charity' and choose some other term than 'vacuous' to describe an argument that your response clearly did not give sufficient thought to. Vacous is also a technical term[1]. The proposition If A then B is said to be vacously true if A does not hold.