Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
by ncallaway on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @01:50PM
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This is exactly right. Disease response can be very paradoxical.
An extreme and early response, can turn a disease into a trivial event. Which raises questions about whether such an aggressive response is necessary.
It can be, in many ways, like using an umbrella in a rainstorm. You get to the destination, and you're totally dry, so what was the point of the umbrella?
With these disease outbreaks, there's no counterfactual we can run to see what would have happened if we didn't respond early.
An extreme and early response, can turn a disease into a trivial event. Which raises questions about whether such an aggressive response is necessary.
It can be, in many ways, like using an umbrella in a rainstorm. You get to the destination, and you're totally dry, so what was the point of the umbrella?
With these disease outbreaks, there's no counterfactual we can run to see what would have happened if we didn't respond early.