How concerned are you about this Coronavirus?

[robby]

@AK84

Here is a video which does an great job of explaining exponential increases.

https://youtu.be/e02eiX866N4

Nice video. Interesting that it uses similar language at the end as the Washington Post article I linked to.

It was never going to seem that bad…until it was.

Incidentally, I posted a link to that same Washington Post article here last month, and commented that:

@robby

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[li]The mortality rate for COVID-19 is at least an order of magnitude greater than that of influenza.[/li][li]The number of cases of COVID-19 are increasing exponentially.[/li][/ul]
Note that “exponentially” is not a synonym for “a lot.” It’s a mathematical term.

When a danger is growing exponentially, everything looks fine until it doesn’t

The problem isn’t the current number of cases. It’s how many cases we will have in a few weeks or months.

More detail here:
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now