Tag: exponential growth

We All Made the Choice to Allow COVID to Spread – Worse, We Still Do

Posted on by Michael

Three big mistakes lead to where we are today. The choices we, both colloquially as every individual but also we as our governments and the world as a whole, repeatedly make choices that let COVID remain. So, I’m not a epidemiologist nor I have any medical degree. That’s also not what I intend to talk […]

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The Numbers of Epidemics and Why Keeping Cafes Open is More Important than High Schools

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There’s this old joke/riddle/maths puzzle: an algae is spreading in a lake so that every night, the covered area doubles. After 10 weeks, 70 days, the lake is fully covered. After how many days was the lake halfway covered? The correct answer is, of course (but very counter-intuitively), that it is half-covered after 69 days […]

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