I just published a video presentation about simulating an epidemic using 4 capacitors and 3 current sources. I analyze the pandemic as a feedback control system from an engineering perspective, and show something surprising: the shape of the policy frontier is concave down, like an inverted parabola, so that in one region of the curve, it’s not a zero-sum game. It’s optimal to both save lives and save the economy at the same time. This is counterintuitive, but comes right out of the circuit model.
I think this is newsworthy because this model directly contradicts the mass media narrative that there is inherently a tradeoff between the two.
Curious to hear what you think.