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fabatka on April 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: India’s second wave

Sure, but disease containment is not (or should not be) the sole metric to optimize for.

Edit: grammar fix

mavhc on April 21, 2021 [–]

Problem is people don't understand exponential growth, whenever the R number if >1 you're totally screwed, even if just 1 person is infected

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