herd immunity

2 posts

Super-spreading, mobility and crowding

Nov 12, 2020 5 min read

I still see quite a few journalists in India refer to "super-spreaders" vis-à-vis the novel coronavirus – implying that some individuals might be to blame for ‘seeding’ lots of new infection…

Time and the pandemic

Apr 20, 2020 4 min read

Life notes Science arrow of time climate change clock time coronavirus coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 entropy eternity herd immunity new coronavirus novel coronavirus second law of thermodynamics time time symmetry

There is this idea in physics that the fundamental laws of nature apply the same way for processes moving both forwards and backwards in time. So you can't actually measure the passage of time by…