-The discussion goes on (is it feasible to callibrate the response that finely?—what of the economic cost? _&c._)—and that's what impresses me; that's what I'm grateful for. _The discussion goes on_. Sure, there's lots of the usual innumeracy, cognitive biases, and sheer wishful thinking, but when there's no strategic advantage to "playing dumb"—there's no pro-virus [coalition that might gain an advantage if we admit out loud that](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DoPo4PDjgSySquHX8/heads-i-win-tails-never-heard-of-her-or-selective-reporting) they said something true—you can see people actually engage each other with [the full beauty of our weapons](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/), and, sometimes, _change their mind in response to new information_. The "flatten the curve" argument isn't "false" exactly (quantitatively slowing down the outbreak will, in fact, quantitatively make the overload on hospitals less bad), but the pretty charts portraying the flattened curve safely below the hospital capacity line were _substantively misleading_, and it was possible for someone to spend a _bounded and small) amount of effort to explain, "Hey, this is substantively misleading because ..." and _be heard_, to the extent that [the people who made one of the most popular "flatten the curve" charts published an updated version reflecting the new argument](https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/14-03-2020/after-flatten-the-curve-we-must-now-stop-the-spread-heres-what-that-means/).
+The discussion goes on (is it feasible to callibrate the response that finely?—what of the economic cost? _&c._)—and that's what impresses me; that's what I'm grateful for. _The discussion goes on_. Sure, there's lots of the usual innumeracy, cognitive biases, and sheer wishful thinking, but when there's no strategic advantage to "playing dumb"—there's no pro-virus [coalition that might gain an advantage if we admit out loud that](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DoPo4PDjgSySquHX8/heads-i-win-tails-never-heard-of-her-or-selective-reporting) they said something true—you can see people actually engage each other with [the full beauty of our weapons](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/), and, sometimes, _change their mind in response to new information_. The "flatten the curve" argument isn't "false" exactly (quantitatively slowing down the outbreak will, in fact, quantitatively make the overload on hospitals less bad), but the pretty charts portraying the flattened curve safely below the hospital capacity line were _substantively misleading_, and it was possible for someone to spend a bounded _and small_ amount of effort to explain, "Hey, this is substantively misleading because ..." and _be heard_, to the extent that [the people who made one of the most popular "flatten the curve" charts published an updated version reflecting the new argument](https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/14-03-2020/after-flatten-the-curve-we-must-now-stop-the-spread-heres-what-that-means/).