“exponential growth” and “flatten the curve.” People use these phrases like they’re some sort of mic drop.

Let’s do some more robust analysis and question every assumption instead of just nodding our heads when we hear the analogy of “the rice on the chess board” or look at two graphs next to each other and a hospital capacity line between them.

Those are helpful starting points, but saying “shut everything down because we need to flatten the curve and stop exponential growth” is simply lazy critical thinking.