That seems to suggest all Rs above 1 are equal, in that they all result in 'exponential growth', and that's not really true. If you have an R (thanks to restrictions) of 1.1, then that's a very diffe… (View Post)

To be fair, rewriting history is something that Cummings knows a lot about. (View Post)

There's a lot of hindsight. A friend of mine lives in downtown Manhattan, overlooking the convention center they turned into a makeshift hospital at the beginning of the pandemic. She told me that in… (View Post)

In Sweden, their parliamentary inquiry concluded they'd made a mistake, and they should have taken the Danish approach. In the UK, we conclude that we made a mistake and that we should have taken the… (View Post)

Well, there was certainly evidence that you could follow. For example, it was clear pretty quickly that the risk of infection when outside was very low. Likewise, we figured out pretty quickly that f… (View Post)