Kinda interesting how thinking on the KPI for Covid has evolved:
- Number of positive cases
- Fatality rate
- Total testing rate
- Per capita testing rate
- Surplus fatality rate
- Testing rate per positive test
The last one is currently the galaxy brain metric
Conversation
Replying to
I think if you're sincere and pragmatic, what you're solving for is minimize deaths subject to a meaningful measure of economic hardship for everybody else (which is not the same as GDP or growth loss for stockholders)....
1
6
Seems like we're finally getting close to the right model for measuring the pandemic itself (even if it is politically unlikely to be the charismatic vanity metric) but we've barely scratched the surface of how to measure the economic hardship cost on others
2
3
