Flattening The Curve, Literally

Description

The image shows a line chart titled "New Confirmed COVID-19 Cases per Day," with the y-axis labeled "New Daily Confirmed Cases" and the x-axis labeled "Number of days ago." A blue time-series line labeled "European Union" dips, rises, and then climbs steeply toward the right edge, with small text at the bottom indicating Johns Hopkins University CSSE data updated on 11/02/2020. Several illustrated skateboarders are pasted onto different slopes of the curve, treating the epidemiological trend line as a skate park. The meme turns pandemic data visualization and prediction into a literal "flatten the curve" joke, while the caption frames it as what happens when machine learning is applied naively to infection-rate forecasting.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The model did not flatten the curve; it just discovered Tony Hawk as a feature engineer.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The model did not flatten the curve; it just discovered Tony Hawk as a feature engineer.
@ArchieWindragon 5y

At least we had a bit of time to beef up healthcare capacity.. Right?
1. @Roman_Millen 5y
  
  Yeah, sure. Spend the COVID budget to fix some roads and give more money to police. (Greetings from Ukraine)
@p4vook 5y

not funny at all
1. @nenten 5y
  
  true
@NiKryukov 5y

According to prediction, we're all gonna die
1. @ANeufeld 5y
  
  Well, just remember that over the same period of time, more people will die because the flue than because of covid-19.