I love this kind of stuff intellectually -- deep dives on how edge cases can produce counterintuitive results. But I'm surprised to see HN uncritically assume

I love this kind of stuff intellectually -- deep dives on how edge cases can produce counterintuitive results. But I'm surprised to see HN uncritically assume this is relevant to Covid [1]. This article deals with viruses that have trouble spreading because they kill the victim too quickly. That's manifestly not the case with Covid, which (when compared to really nasty things like ebola or apparently Marek's) kills a relatively low share of its victims and isn't particularly quick about it. [1] Or at least the top two top-level comments do as I'm writing this.