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In response to "Cuomo -- (link)" by ty97

The “eventually will become infected” number is another potentially alarming but plainly misleading number? 80Pct infected at the same time today? Fuc

Posted by JackDawson (aka dawson) Mar 21 '20, 10:06

K, we’re all dead and society is over 80pcf infected over the next 18 months?

Ok, so we’ll manage it like we manage other diseases

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But that's precisely the point of what we're doing right now. Keep the numbers lower so that when you do decide to do something important, like, oh - Reagen Mar 21, 10:28 4
- (Not sure how my post got interpreted as meh let’s not flatten the curve?) -- nm - JackDawson Mar 21, 10:33 2
  - because I don't think "80 pct will eventually get it" is supposed to be alarming or misleading. - Reagen Mar 21, 10:35 1
    - You’re probably right that it’s not meant to be alarming but unfortunately without context it’s liable to get used as an alarming metric by panic - JackDawson Mar 21, 10:42
- Right exactly - that’s what we are hoping to get to -- nm - JackDawson Mar 21, 10:33

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