Epidemiologists cannot know the specific actions of each individual in a community. This kind of knowledge is not knowable to any scientist. The top mistake being made by state governments is their imposing uniform rules that limit the use of local knowledge to fight the virus.
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Replying to @justinamash
Physicists don't know the position and momentum of every atom in the universe but they are still able to derive some remarkably precise predictions about what happens to matter when you add energy to a particular system. Their models include the relevant information.
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Replying to @generativist @justinamash
Lol I independently made this exact reductio ad absurdum.
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Replying to @maxwellmbay @justinamash
Analogies from physics: the interlocutors nearby hammer ;)
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