{"id":15306,"date":"2014-09-24T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=15306"},"modified":"2014-09-24T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T08:00:28","slug":"mad-is-not-a-viable-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15306","title":{"rendered":"MAD is not a Viable Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2014\/09\/21\/how-anti-vaccination-is-like-a-nuclear-bomb\/\">How anti-vaccination is like a nuclear bomb<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How quickly the disease spreads, if it spreads at all, depends on the number of people vaccinated.  Again, we find very simple math: if, on average, an infected person encounters less than one unvaccinated person while he\/she is contagious, the disease will die out.  If, however, an infected person encounters more than one unvaccinated person while he\/she is contagious, the disease will multiply: each new infected person infects new ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A fairly decent analogy (even if I have a terminology nit: induced reactions are not decays)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How anti-vaccination is like a nuclear bomb How quickly the disease spreads, if it spreads at all, depends on the number of people vaccinated. Again, we find very simple math: if, on average, an infected person encounters less than one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15306\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}