Re: [Manycouches] covid forecast of a (no)wave for Summer IETF in Philadelphia, USA

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Wed, 04 May 2022 12:51 UTC

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Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 08:51:18 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Manycouches] covid forecast of a (no)wave for Summer IETF in Philadelphia, USA
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The bottom line here:

>    As one can see, the range between those two forecasts (May 15th and
>    August 1st) is way too wide to be of any use.

Exactly: We can't possibly know this far in advance what things will
be line eight weeks from now.  Is there really any value to these
messages until the time gets closer and there might be some real
predictive use?

Barry