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lonelappde on April 18, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Failure, but Not of Prediction

Cool that would have given the US another 4 weeks to ignore the problem before it got exactly as bad it is now. You can't solve an exponential problem with a constant size reduction.

undersuit on April 18, 2020 [–]

>You can't solve an exponential problem with a constant size reduction.

Isn't that exactly what we're doing with social distancing?

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