??? If we sustained that 150,000 per day (which was seen at the time as catastrophic and was the final peak rather than a constant rate, but let’s do the arithmetic) To get around 45,000,000 infected… (View Post)

The reason it keeps coming up is that while it's a mirage, it appeals to the "For God's sake, let's just get it over with!" impulse within our brains. We want there to be a s… (View Post)

It also shows that as well as not understanding big numbers, people don't understand averages, either. They seem to want to use the average as the representative of the entire distribution, for … (View Post)

People, as a whole, are terrible with handling large numbers. Our monkey brains didn't evolve to deal with them; our instinct on counting is "None," "One," "Two," &… (View Post)

Exactly. What does "just get on with it" look like? There are two key questions to answer: - How long? (do you have to put up with it until herd immunity comes - if it ever comes and stays)… (View Post)