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Epidemiological math can quickly become quite intricate if you truly work through the issues, since you must account for geometric growth; however, if you are someone whose capacity for nuanced thought is seriously limited and, at the same time, someone morally unwilling to care about anything beyond your own immediate comfort—and if you should happen to be the president of these United States when a disruptive epidemic surfaces—then the arithmetic is, in fact, fairly straightforward:
