Re: Covid 19: was Re: Update to Countywide Order to Shelter At Home; Cancellation of all in-person BerkeleyLUG meetups for April

[Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>]

Quoting tom r lopes (tomrlopes@gmail.com):

> A lot of talk on the Conspire list about this: people not understanding
> exponential growth.  But I hadn't expected to be confronted with such lack
> of understanding.

Also not understanding the implications of this being a -=novel=- virus,
thus (in that respect, as in several others) orders of magnitude worse a
disease threat than is influenza:  'Novel' as in, the virus is just now
for the first time ever in contact with the human population, ergo
it's encountering a world population of 7.8 billion humans _none_ of
whom has any antiviral immunity to slow it down.

Anyone still promoting that dumb talking point on March 31, 2020 is
either oblivious or trolling.  (Those refrigerated 18-wheel trucks
outside hospitals aren't there for flu cadavers[1].)  But there's opportunity
there, if you want to seize it:  Offer your co-worker a wager:  At the
end of June, you two will subtract WHO's figure for 2019-2020 seasonal
influenza deaths worldwide from WHO's figure for 2019-2020 COVID-19
deaths worldwide.  If it's a positive number, your coworker owes you
that many dollars.  If negative, you owe your coworker that many
dollars.

I've found there's nothing quite like a gentleman's bet to motivate
people to re-engage the clutch to the brain before firing up the motor
to the mouth.


[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9wZBOoeQYU
Cellphone video footage, taken the morning of Sunday, March 29 outside
Brooklyn Hospital Center worker by one John Lee.
https://patch.com/new-york/bed-stuy/video-hospital-loads-body-truck-amid-coronavirus-outbreak

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