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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @03:39AM (#22421423)
Do you have examples of other epidemics where it was impossible to fit a quadratic? I've seen this argument a lot, but I've never seen anyone attempt to analyze how hard it actually is. I suspect that any data with positive first and second derivatives is pretty easy to fit closely to a quadratic.
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by jacques_chester on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:02AM (#22422497)
The point that's been made is that the fit is suspiciously perfect, +/- 1 person per day.

Either Wuhan is populated by perfect spheres in a vacuum or the reported numbers were based on a projection, not data.

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