{"id":167,"date":"2020-03-26T08:56:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=167"},"modified":"2020-03-29T17:36:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T00:36:18","slug":"flatten-the-curve-of-armchair-epidemiology-noah-haber-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/26\/flatten-the-curve-of-armchair-epidemiology-noah-haber-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"Flatten the Curve of Armchair Epidemiology &#8211; Noah Haber &#8211; Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Everyone has seen messages telling you we must \u201cact today or people will die,\u201d COVID-19 is basically just the flu, and\/or that \u201cflattening the curve is a deadly delusion.\u201d These often have numbers, charts, citations, retroactively edited titles (\u201ctaksies backsies\u201d), and data \u201cscience.\u201d<br \/>\nUnfortunately, all of the above are signs of DKE-19, a highly contagious illness threatening the response against COVID-19. We must act today to flatten the curve of armchair epidemiology, or we will all be in peril.<br \/>\n<em>What is DKE-19?<\/em><br \/>\nDunning-Kruger Effect (DKE) is <em>a phenomenon where people lack the ability to understand their lack of ability<\/em>. While strains of DKE typically circulate seasonally, a new and more virulent strain called DKE-19 is now reaching pandemic proportions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@noahhaber\/flatten-the-curve-of-armchair-epidemiology-9aa8cf92d652\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Flatten the Curve of Armchair Epidemiology &#8211; Noah Haber &#8211; Medium<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/tag\/amateur\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">#amateur<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has seen messages telling you we must \u201cact today or people will die,\u201d COVID-19 is basically just the flu, and\/or that \u201cflattening the curve is a deadly delusion.\u201d These often have numbers, charts, citations, retroactively edited titles (\u201ctaksies backsies\u201d), and data \u201cscience.\u201d Unfortunately, all of the above are signs of DKE-19, a highly contagious &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/26\/flatten-the-curve-of-armchair-epidemiology-noah-haber-medium\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}