throwawayatwork

Incidentally, Ericsson's 2019 paper cites a Hacker News comment. We've come full circle.

'10,000 h' succeeds as a meme because it tells people what they want to believe, that with enough practice, anyone can covet the skills of genius. It’s not so much that people want to become world-class musicians or top physicists, but rather that they have the potential to become those things if they want to, by practicing enough

Hacker news, (2017). Hacker News Post by "Paulpauper". Available at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13855422 (accesseed March 4, 2019).

That seems wildly optimistic.

In the UK, 2% of people who tested positive have died. In the US, 1.7% of people who tested positive have died.

The mortality rate among hospitalized people even higher.

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality