Come on, what is this, pre-calc? Guess we haven't covered growth curves yet, I'd suggest repeating some high school level math.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: we've had to ask you this kind of thing a dismaying number of times before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26746696 (April 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26137187 (Feb 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25449372 (Dec 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25449361 (Dec 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376648 (Dec 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23511440 (June 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20538819 (July 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20377920 (July 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19956799 (May 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18679163 (Dec 2018)
You've continued to post unsubstantive comments and flamewar comments. If you can't or won't respect the rules here, we're going to end up having to ban you. Please fix this!
> Come on, what is this, pre-calc? Guess we haven't covered growth curves yet, I'd suggest repeating some high school level math.
Okay let's see all your working that justifies your position.
You can't just spout "but growth curve" and act like you won the argument. What's the growth curve for vaccinated people? What's the growth curve for vaccinated overweight people who catch covid and their increased complications put demand spikes on hospital systems, and explain why that won't cause shortages. I'll wait.
I sure can! I literally just did. It's a poor tactic to refute something that's already happened...
Also, as for growth curves, and transmissible disease has one, because it's, ya know, transmissible. The transmissions curve for obesity is... Not a curve. It's just a line.
Exponential growth doesn't grow forever, when talking about populations the curve is more of an "S" shape due to upper limits. After a point it turns into exponential backoff as herd immunity is approached.
And you're right that overweight/obese doesn't follow either curve, but what you're missing is that it's already really high, and pretty stable at that point.
It's kinda like arguing C * O(n) is worse than C * O(1), but completely ignoring that in practice n < 10 in either case, but C = 1 for the first and C = 100 in the second.
I'm aware, but wanted to keep this discussion as simple as possible, since there seems to already be a misunderstanding of "transmissible" vs "non-transmissible", and how that effects derivatives.
> After a point it turns into exponential backoff as herd immunity is approached.
I'm not sure this is applicable, considering how many viruses come in yearly waves, such as the common cold. We've already seen one of these with COVID-19...
> And you're right that overweight/obese doesn't follow either curve, but what you're missing is that it's already really high, and pretty stable at that point.
The signal period for obesity is very large compared to virus infection. I imagine most people who become obese do so over at least 3 years, and that's due to consistently unhealthy habits or underlying conditions, whereas a few minutes talking to someone with COVID can cause transmission.
[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-biology/ecology-ap/po...
Because vaccinated obese people still cause a significant load on the healthcare system.
Wrong. I see why you're trying to make this unfounded assertion, because you have nothing else. But that doesn't make it true just because you're saying it.
> I will support vaccine mandates for this reason. I hope one day you will understand differential equations.
Still feeling a bit fragile about your inability to form a coherent argument, eh? Don't let it bother you too much.
> I am done trying to engage with you in good faith.
Yes I had noticed that from your first post.