[Leica] Nathan's PAD 14/3/2020: ghost town
Brian Reid
reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Sun Mar 15 15:59:09 PDT 2020
> I saw a US map this morning with the infection numbers. It does not
> take a
> genius to tell that EACH of the centers of infection are the same as
> major
> airports.
True, but major airports are all built near major cities. It's the
population centers that are the problem. Each time you add one person to
a population, that gives one more possible host and one more possible
victim for infectious spread. That means that the probability of disease
growth is proportional to the square of the population. So larger cities
will have more cases, and will also have bigger airports. I don't
believe there is any reliable data on how much airports are involved in
the spread of this disease.
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