“Measurement cartoons and modeling cartoons not only lead hedge funds to ruin, they do the same for entire nations. #DontTestDontTell is a measurement cartoon. #HerdImmunity is a modeling cartoon. The UK is doing both, and it is madness.” —
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That's a great way of thinking about what I called reification in my ribbonfarm post a few years back - ribbonfarm.com/2016/06/09/goo - and others have called surrogation: aaajournals.org/doi/10.2308/ac
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Have you read the Imperial College paper?
imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial
The logic behind British decisions becomes clear when you read it. They assume levels of non-compliance will be such that eventually we will hit herd immunity (and all the deaths that entails anyway)
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