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whit3rd
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On Sunday, April 5, 2020 at 10:45:34 PM UTC-7, Flyguy wrote:
> I see that you are in complete denial - the infection came from China, not NY.
Complete? Did the 'maybe' word entirely vanish from your screen, or are you jumping to irrelevant
and dismissive conclusions without reason ?
Have you ever examined the Quicksort algorithm? To complete a sorting operation, basically
all adjacent items in the list have to be less than the previous and more than the subsequent item.
Fastest way to do that, is to mix long-jump tests and transfers with short-jump transfers, i.e. to
have a mixture of short and long hops.
Well, short hops in air/rail/auto travel (inside the US) for spring break, and Mardi Gras, moved
lots of folk through shared accommodations and crowded travel nodes, and the
result was a BIG boost in the figures in later weeks. The infection was already out
of China when air travel there was constrained, but it didn't have to contaminate the
ports (Seattle, New York) where fresh-from-China folk were present, AND
every college that had a flood of disease vectors leaving for break and coming back
with a new virus.
Just as in Quicksort, the combination of long transfers (to port cities, basically on the borders)
and short ones (to every conference or party town with seasonal traffic) is going to
be the fast way to spread things. First it hits the airline hubs, then all the local
airfields...
The hotelier in the oval office forgot about the implications of internal travel but
was insistent on blaming foreigners. He forgot (or didn't think) to constrain
internal mixing as well.
> I see that you are in complete denial - the infection came from China, not NY.
Complete? Did the 'maybe' word entirely vanish from your screen, or are you jumping to irrelevant
and dismissive conclusions without reason ?
Have you ever examined the Quicksort algorithm? To complete a sorting operation, basically
all adjacent items in the list have to be less than the previous and more than the subsequent item.
Fastest way to do that, is to mix long-jump tests and transfers with short-jump transfers, i.e. to
have a mixture of short and long hops.
Well, short hops in air/rail/auto travel (inside the US) for spring break, and Mardi Gras, moved
lots of folk through shared accommodations and crowded travel nodes, and the
result was a BIG boost in the figures in later weeks. The infection was already out
of China when air travel there was constrained, but it didn't have to contaminate the
ports (Seattle, New York) where fresh-from-China folk were present, AND
every college that had a flood of disease vectors leaving for break and coming back
with a new virus.
Just as in Quicksort, the combination of long transfers (to port cities, basically on the borders)
and short ones (to every conference or party town with seasonal traffic) is going to
be the fast way to spread things. First it hits the airline hubs, then all the local
airfields...
The hotelier in the oval office forgot about the implications of internal travel but
was insistent on blaming foreigners. He forgot (or didn't think) to constrain
internal mixing as well.