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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-comic-strip-tour-of-the-wild-world-of-pandemic-modeling/

FiveThirtyEight illustrated by Zach Weinersmith of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

It essentially summarizes why there's so much uncertainty in all of the pandemic forecasts. I thought it was interesting.

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Here's the difference

A model that projects a massive number of deaths and gets it wrong: People can act like they were so much smarter than the experts and the whole thing was just an overreaction

A model that projects only a few deaths and gets it wrong: People don't get to complain because they're dead

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