ANATOLY IVANOV / PROSE / 2020-03-09

EXPONENTIAL VS LINEAR THINKING IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19

by Anatoly IVANOV

BIOLOGY / MATHEMATICS / PSYCHOLOGY / SOCIETY / ESSAYS

The people most alarmed about the coronavirus seem to be people accustomed to thinking exponentially — people in tech, finance, and science.

People least alarmed are those used to thinking about problems linearly.

The problem isn’t the virus itself. It’s the under-provisioned healthcare systems and global logistics / economy response to populations’ quarantine.

Oh, and… “alarmed” does not equal “panicked”.

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