It also sounds exactly like Ferguson's Imperial College epidemiology model that apparently compelled politicians into imposing hard lockdowns (and was likely wr

It also sounds exactly like Ferguson's Imperial College epidemiology model that apparently compelled politicians into imposing hard lockdowns (and was likely wrong by at least an order of magnitude): - "a single 15k line C file that had been worked on for a decade" [0] - code review of the model: [1] - corresponding HN discussion: [2] (including sad appeals to authority: you're not an epidemiologist) - other HN discussion [3] (including ridiculously blaming programmers for making C++ available to non-programmers) [0] https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1254872369556074496 https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1254872369556074496 [1] https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/ https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23093944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23093944 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23222338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23222338