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Re:Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from a... by wpietri on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:06AM (#23257853)
The point of the early models, which were predicated on no behavior change, was to change behavior. And they certainly did. Well before the official stay-at-home orders, people here in SF were starting to act differently. And when those orders came, people took them seriously. So I don't think we can blame early models for doing exactly what they were supposed to do, which was telling us what could happen if we didn't take the disease seriously.

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