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It’s called exponential growth and humans are well known to be almost comically bad at identifying and interpreting it.

When people make forward looking statements using the term “exponential growth”, you can always replace that with “S-curve”.

Remember when we had two weeks of data, and governments acted like Covid was projected to kill everyone by next Tuesday?

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