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To: nonsporting

Viruses rise and fall along predictable curves.
Flattening the curve means prolonging the duration.
He is not wrong about this.

The goal has to be to manage the curve so that we don’t overflow and crash the health care system. Preventing people from catching it is actually not possible.


5 posted on 04/08/2020 5:44:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
------Flattening the curve means prolonging the duration.----

No, not a given. If the slope is negative, the time will be reduced. What you argue is that there is a continued positive slope. If there is any significant -Δt, the duration won't be prolonged

6 posted on 04/08/2020 5:50:19 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Preventing people from catching it is actually not possible.


7 posted on 04/08/2020 5:51:24 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Viruses rise and fall along predictable curves.


Unless they are manufactured not to do so.


11 posted on 04/08/2020 6:38:26 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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