Daily Case Counts Are So Low
Someone dismisses a virus because daily cases are only 4, 8, 16… But doubling daily, it would reach the whole world in about a month.
Transcript
[One person, visibly ill] "Granted, it's a bad virus. But the daily case counts are so low: 4, 8, 16… Why, at that rate, to infect the whole world would take…" "A month."
Content note: Pandemic/virus theme.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024-09-03-daily-case-counts-are-so-low/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)