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In a Recent Simulation, a Coronavirus Killed 65M People (futurism.com)
5 points by imlina 2335 days ago
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The assumptions are comical. Clickbait fear mongering.
The assumption is also that hacker news readers are not subjected to fear mongering but I guess that assumption of mine was also comical.

Assumptions here obviously won’t be 100% accurate given it’s a simulation conducted 2 months before outbreak.

The point of this exercise is “what if” and seeing if useful extrapolations can be drawn from tweaking the variables.