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Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to... by atemerev on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @03:26AM (#22533434)
Because at the beginning, a logistic curve is often confused with exponential growth. There are very few truly exponential processes in the nature. All things come to an end. Epidemics, population growth, economic growth... no such thing as exponential growth with limited resources.
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Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to... by joking on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:48AM (#22534082)
the logistic curve is what happens to the initial exponential grow when there's no more way to grow, because there is no more population to infect or when severe social exclusion is set, but the initial grow is still exponential.
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