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Re:The Terrifying Lessons of a Pandemic Simulation by quux on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:50PM (#17207271)
The opening paragraphs of this article really remind me of the film Contagion, which IIRC tried to portray a pandemic hitting the current world as realistically as possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_(film)

Re:The Terrifying Lessons of a Pandemic Simulation by SuspiciousSwan on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:08PM (#17207502)
It's even more accurate than I thought when I saw it. I assumed the the visualization of the virus was stupid movie crap, then I worked in bioinformatics and realized it was https://pymol.org/2 . One of my friends worked for the state health department, and she said that the level that R0 was explained was spot on as well.
Re:The Terrifying Lessons of a Pandemic Simulation by Fomite on Saturday June 02, 2018 @02:06AM (#17212999)
I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist - their explanation of R0 (which is occasionally a silly concept but that's another story) is one of the better ones, and the one I use in my classes.