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A lot of people dont seem to understand exponential growth. (Which is why people suck with things like loans since they also dont understand compound interest, a mutual friend of exponential growth)
Let's say you have a pond with a single lily pad. That lily pad will double every day. It takes 30 days for lily pads to completely cover the entire pond. On what day do the lily pads cover half the pond?
The answer is day 29.
That is what everyone has been warning us about with this virus. The exponential growth will overwhelm our capacity.
And why we are trying to flatten the curve to slow that growth down.
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