It's Impossible

One of the benefits of my addiction to "How the Universe Works" is that, every now and again, one scientist or another will remind the viewer that Infinity has never been encountered in the wild. Or, to put it more nastily, when the equations spit out an Infinity, there has to be something wrong with the equations.

The exception, more or less, is that the Big Bang Singularity hasn't been rejected. Well, at least not out of hand.

Which brings us to today's NYT's Covid China graphs. Mentioned frequently in these here parts. If you toddle over there soon, you'll get to see another Impossible Infinity: if you look you'll see that Covid-ο/Covid-π have gone skyrocket steeper than previous countries. Naturally, for a population of 1.4 billion, the numbers aren't anywhere near what happened in nearly every other country. But, as one might expect (and most of the experts have pointed to), the zero-Covid policy (test, trace, isolate) that kept Covid small before Covid-ο left the population with minimal natural immunity and not much more from vaccination. Whether China gets to hundreds of thousands or millions of deaths because of these factors remains to be seen. Keep in mind that Covid-ο's characterization as 'just a cold' by the nutballs here in the West, is grounded in the facts of natural immunity (idiot anti-vaxxers getting sick and not dying) and vaccine immunity to prior variants protecting, more or less, large swaths of the populations.

White people wiped out on the order of 90% of Pre-Columbian New World populations with viruses. Not so common to The First Americans. Go look at the Spring 2020 graphs; I'm willing to bet a gonad that China will repeat that.

Here's the kicker: under the heading "Latest trends", it says "Deaths have increased by Infinity percent." Huh?? Had been close enough to zero, such that the calculator went into underflow when figuring the increase. Nobody noticed.