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He is correct that people are not literate in math. I was in another forum, which I decided to no longer waste my time on, when someone posted how the infection would increase if nothing is done, if the contact between people was cut by 50%, and then if it was cut by a second 50%. His meme started with a 2.5 times every five days. It showed it continuing to increase even after the second cut. I pointed out that the growth rate was 2.5 to start with, then cut 1.25, then cut to 0.625 as the meme said, the virus dies out very quickly after the second cut.

This would be a strong argument to implement as much social distancing as you could it it were true. The meme showed it still increasing the total number infected even after the second cut. Some of the people on the forum of course made personal attacks and said they would take the word of doctors over me. They refused to even try to understand the math.

EDIT: I corrected that half of 1.25 is 0.625 not .0625. I really can do math, my typing is just nowhere near as competent. I want to thank jerry_r60 for letting me know about the typo. It is really bad to make what appears to be a math error in a post about how bad other people are at math.