And now for good news. Another failure of linear thinking: Vaccine rollouts.

Disregard comments such as “With the current level of vaccinations, it will take 3 years to vaccinate everybody!”

We will not have the current level of vaccinations for long.
Over the next few weeks, you will see how daily vaccination rates steadily increase. This is something humans, markets and govs are good at: making one single thing happen when there’s a huge incentive.
Even a linear growth in daily vaccinations would get lots of ppl vaccinated fast (quadratic growth):
Eg, If today the US vaccinates 100k ppl, tomorrow 120k, and 20k more every day, after 1 week you have 1.1M vaccinated, but by the end of next week 3.2M are vaccinated.
We saw it with testing. Slow early on, but then quite quick.

And that’s without accounting for the fact that the most at risk will be vaccinated first.

This is a race btw the new strain and vaccines. It will be a tough spring, but by this summer hopefully it won’t kill much

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30 Dec
Why are apologies so frequently unfulfilling?

They’re seen as status as opposed to learning.

So what’s a perfect apology?
If person W says “I was wrong, you were right”, our immediate reaction is that the right person (R) is better, smarter, and will gloat. W is humiliated, proven ignorant.

That’s why those in the wrong don’t want to acknowledge it, and hence mutter sorry
R hears muttering, and doesn’t think W really means it. So she’s not satisfied either.

But why? R did get an apology.

It’s because the point of the apology is to make sure it won’t happen again.
Read 7 tweets
29 Dec
The new strain of #COVID is more transmissible. Will it be deadlier?

Many ppl think not: "If a virus kills more quickly, it has fewer opportunities to spread. It's the transmission-virulence tradeoff."

Unfortunately, that's too simplistic. 🧵
1. When a virus is more efficient, it reproduces faster, and that increases both transmissibility and virulence

2. The evidence of the transmission-virulence tradeoff theory is not that clear. This fantastic paper explains it well.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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27 Dec
The new virus strain is ~60% more infectious. We haven’t processed what that means.🧵

1. Western countries that didn’t stop the previous variant won’t be able to stop this one. It’s already in UK, US, FR, NL... that we know. Probably many more places.
cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19…
The time to close borders was this summer. Or a month ago. It’s too late now for most countries.

2. If countries had a hard time stopping it before, they will have a much much harder time now. If it’s 60% more infectious, R0 has gone from 2.7 to ~4.3 on average.
Countries that stopped the virus from spreading got R from 2.7 to 1, a reduction of ~60%. Now, they need to reduce R by ~75%.

But remember: all the low-hanging fruit is already used (masks, social distancing...). The next measures are all more expensive.
Read 17 tweets
25 Dec
Most media outlets are like bioweapon labs that release viruses into the population.

News, like viruses, are parasites that add no value to their host (or even destroy it) but are great at spreading.

How can you vaccinate yourself from them?🧵
There are mechanisms for good entities to interact in a body. Viruses hijack those mechanisms to multiply and spread. For example, the coronavirus’ spike protein opens some cell up for invasion. Once in, the virus reproduces and then leaves to infect other cells.
The same thing happens with news. They hijack mental biases to spread.

For example, the chronicle of events, full of homicides, is mostly worthless. They are just remote anecdotes. A much better data point would be tracking the curve of homicides in your community.
Read 7 tweets
21 Dec
What was the impact of the article Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now?

Now that 2020 is ending (finally), and that Medium has published it was its most read article of 2020, I wanted to look back to those few days in March.

What happened?

medium.com/creators-hub/2…
Sneak peak
Just as over 40 million people were reading the article worldwide, mobility was going down.

So I wondered: Was it perfect timing?
Or did it actually... contribute?
Read 21 tweets
19 Dec
What is a brand?
Your Truth.
What you stand for.

"Apple, its core value, is that we believe people with passion can change the world for the better..."

"...And the people crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do."

It led to one of the best advertising campaigns in history: Think Different

@elonmusk is an engineer, yet creates amazing brands because his companies have a Truth. They stand for something huge.

What does Tesla stand for?
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