Simulating an epidemic

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  • Опубліковано 26 бер 2020
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 6 тис.

  • @gtw4546
    @gtw4546 4 роки тому +2712

    3Blue1Brown: "In most towns, people don't actually spend their days drunkenly wandering around the city."
    New Orleans: "Let me tell you about Mardi Gras."

  • @occupyla1
    @occupyla1 4 роки тому +829

    "All models are wrong; some are useful." Thanks for presenting this *very useful* model!

    • @eric.is.online
      @eric.is.online 4 роки тому +14

      Another way I've heard it said is 'The map is not the terrain'.

    • @StarNumbers
      @StarNumbers 4 роки тому +5

      Another way of saying it: "Math is a shorthand for a theory but does not prove the theory (as such)." In this case the parameter values are assumptions and the various results are useful only to the politicians, which, moreover, strip or ignore the feedback/validation.

    • @QuantumConundrum
      @QuantumConundrum 4 роки тому +1

      Very much agreed, but more so for models involving humans, and less so for natural phenomena we've studied for a very, very long time (think N-body simulations). Making this assessment is important.

    • @ModusPwnens72
      @ModusPwnens72 4 роки тому +1

      @@eric.is.online I like that angle much better, for two reasons. First, mistaking a representation for the thing it represents is a widespread issue across many domains, not just mathematical modeling. Second, "all models are wrong" sounds confused to me - like you should come up with a better definition of "right" and "wrong" in the contexts of models. It's silly to say "all maps are wrong but some are useful." Many maps are "right" but the threshold for a map being "right" is not as high as reflecting literally everything about the area being mapped.

    • @eleanorhuxley6959
      @eleanorhuxley6959 4 роки тому +4

      Bruh, why use a semicolon if you're gonna use it wrong?

  • @tgmcnaughton
    @tgmcnaughton 3 роки тому +1358

    I'm an Emergency Medicine Physician with a PhD background in modelling. I am absolutely blown away by your work combining phenomenally effective graphics with practical modelling and a patient methodical, logical argument. Even Edward Tufte would be jealous a what you've done here. Truly one of the best presentations on any topic I've ever seen in my entire life. You deserve a medal and Isaac Newton's chair.

    • @tim40gabby25
      @tim40gabby25 3 роки тому +18

      I don't know how it panned out in Redlands, CA, but the UK screwed up by politicians overruling logicians, I'm afraid. Even now, mostly young male narcissists shop unmasked, as civil liberties don't allow questioning. A solution is they must visor up - we did a unique community visor acceptability study, and everyone can tolerate these alternatives - for the mask intolerant. Boom, as young folk say. Retired old UK medic here. Keep safe :)

    • @Koffe382
      @Koffe382 3 роки тому +13

      Damn that was the nicest compliment I’ve ever seen. From a fellow MD myself, thank you for taking your time to write this representing our profession.

    • @AthelstanEngland
      @AthelstanEngland 3 роки тому +4

      @@tim40gabby25 scared people is the problem. Older people ruining it for the young by promoting this fear. I’m disgusted by what my generation have done to the future of my kids and grandchildren.

    • @fractal5764
      @fractal5764 2 роки тому +4

      I read that as "Isaac Newton's hair"

    • @igorpashev
      @igorpashev 2 роки тому +1

      and absolutly unrealistic: how to detect cases? where isolate them (at site)? R depends on absolute humidity. Distancing is bullshit, because respiratory desease can travel over kilometers.

  • @Insane_Kane
    @Insane_Kane 3 роки тому +2685

    Its ridiculous how accurate most of this ended up being

    • @mpiacheese
      @mpiacheese 3 роки тому +19

      coronavirus 101

    • @Consequator
      @Consequator 3 роки тому +5

      right ?

    • @andyjackson3663
      @andyjackson3663 3 роки тому +9

      I think the word is frightening tbh.

    • @user-rc2ev6cl7u
      @user-rc2ev6cl7u 3 роки тому +63

      @@andyjackson3663 its not scary its math but its stupid how we could not stop this

    • @RaindropsBleeding
      @RaindropsBleeding 3 роки тому +36

      we're even seeing a second wave in places where people are beginning to ignore social distancing rules

  • @jmlatimer
    @jmlatimer 4 роки тому +1393

    The 100% social distancing model looks oddly crystalline and satisfying.

    • @vorname1485
      @vorname1485 4 роки тому +32

      with the typical errors ^^

    • @Blackdiamond2
      @Blackdiamond2 4 роки тому +94

      Looks exactly like a metal lattice, with slight lines of dislocation - which would represent grain boundaries in metal. If you think about how bonded atoms are basically dots that attract each other but repel each other at closer distances so can never touch, it's pretty analagous to a bunch of repelling dots confined in a space together. This is why you get the same structures and properties in both. Funny how maths do that sometimes.

    • @internetuser8922
      @internetuser8922 4 роки тому +27

      My high school chemistry teacher tried to explain entropy in a similar way. A real-world example he gave was people choosing seats in a movie theater that’s initially empty and gradually fills up. When the occupancy is low, people are unlikely to sit down right next to a stranger, etc.

    • @joshuarohantitchener7395
      @joshuarohantitchener7395 4 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/0U_FBHKYqRk/v-deo.html

    • @ShinnahWilde
      @ShinnahWilde 4 роки тому +3

      I would like to see a similar video about the supply of goods relating to differing levels of governmental price controls.

  • @louisauffret
    @louisauffret 4 роки тому +472

    17:58 literally "it's not a bug, it's a feature"

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 4 роки тому +59

      Louis Auffret
      “It’s a bug, but I liked it so much that I made it into a feature.”

    • @jameswalker199
      @jameswalker199 4 роки тому +5

      Creamy Pasta
      Camper van owners just spread the disease to different communities, though. It'd be like the quarantine box simulation, but instead of it being a quarantine box, you just send them all to the same community box.

    • @TheExcellentVideoChannel
      @TheExcellentVideoChannel 4 роки тому

      AI's also find bugs in their programmed worlds ua-cam.com/video/Lu56xVlZ40M/v-deo.html

    • @louf7178
      @louf7178 4 роки тому

      Minimizes regard for pretentiousness.

  • @songsofwar6966
    @songsofwar6966 3 роки тому +364

    21:10 this aged really well. in that this is exactly what happened, in the US and Europe and nearly everywhere that initially suppressed it

    • @ferociousfeind8538
      @ferociousfeind8538 2 роки тому +31

      Didn't the US suffer from like, five distinct waves? We failed to learn our lesson four different times. Amazing.
      edit: and as I recall, they were like, the minimum viable definition of a wave, where we let up as soon as R dipped below 1, instead of actual cases dropping below some number.

    • @honestwong8942
      @honestwong8942 2 роки тому +11

      @@ferociousfeind8538 R

    • @ferociousfeind8538
      @ferociousfeind8538 2 роки тому +18

      @@honestwong8942 well, yeah, five instances of the U.S. almost getting a handle on the pandemic, and then seeing that R

    • @canngothi1781
      @canngothi1781 2 роки тому

      *fact

    • @simoncgn1
      @simoncgn1 2 роки тому

      4th wave 🔥🔥🔥

  • @CoinEaterBTBM
    @CoinEaterBTBM 3 роки тому +580

    “just like the simulations!” has never felt so real

    • @igorpashev
      @igorpashev 2 роки тому +2

      absolutely unrealistic: how to detect cases? where isolate them (at site)? R depends on absolute humidity. Distancing is bullshit, because respiratory disease can travel over kilometers.

    • @ilovecheese8707
      @ilovecheese8707 2 роки тому +13

      @@igorpashev so that’s why u should wear a mask

    • @SkulsterDulster
      @SkulsterDulster 2 роки тому +6

      @@igorpashev Respiratory diseases are not always airborne if thats what you mean. Also, I need sources on the last claim because ive only known airborne diseases to remain for mere hours. Airborne diseases also infect efficiently through moist droplets from one person, also made more effective within 6 feet. Wear masks, distance yourselves. Thx champ.

    • @alfiek9037
      @alfiek9037 2 роки тому

      b

  • @GingerDas
    @GingerDas 4 роки тому +612

    "Kissing, sneezing on each other, all that good stuff."

    • @sand5461
      @sand5461 4 роки тому +29

      Sneezing on each other, as you do.

    • @NoriMori1992
      @NoriMori1992 4 роки тому +39

      "Sneeze on me like one of your French girls."

    • @Max-cs1dn
      @Max-cs1dn 4 роки тому +1

      I cracked up at that line hard. Lol.

    • @Sandesh98147
      @Sandesh98147 4 роки тому +2

      @@NoriMori1992 I was cracking up too hard

  • @leptongalaxy4158
    @leptongalaxy4158 4 роки тому +1442

    "If they remain unnoticed and spreadable in everyone before becoming lethal."
    Laughs in Plague Inc.

    • @amunak_
      @amunak_ 4 роки тому +143

      @@x_x5009 This is the most unrealistic part of Plague, Inc. unfortunately. Diseases mutate, yes, but they mutate independently, and IRL every mutation needs to (re-)infect people with the newer version in order to have the "new" effects. Whereas in Plague, Inc. all your previous infections mutate at once, which makes the game fun and easier, but also completely wrong.

    • @morroghaiky6580
      @morroghaiky6580 4 роки тому +15

      @@amunak_ It would be interesting to make a scenario, in which you cannot evolve (or devolve) symptoms manually, just increasing and decreasing mutations and wait for it.

    • @ashleybyrd2015
      @ashleybyrd2015 4 роки тому +42

      @@morroghaiky6580 or a scenario where every time you mutate it creates a new patient zero which has to infect everyone again, immune suppression could make it easier to infect pre-infected people.

    • @fragilebean1314
      @fragilebean1314 4 роки тому +4

      You guys are forgetting biowarefare! I know that none of us can be certain of where this virus came from, and either way, we can't trust the CCP or anything they tell us or their people. They're already telling them that the virus came from America.
      So that aside, it's my personal belief that this is a virus that's been created in a lab (in 2013- theres records of it, and it won awards). The genetic technical capabilities of the higher ups is insane, if you dont believe in aliens and backwards engineering secretly happening, then this concept will be implausible to you. The details, proofs, and reasons behind this happening dont matter for now, but if you want to learn more, Edge of Wonder has tons of videos on this and related topics.
      Anyways. This virus either gets out by accident, or on purpose. The CCP is now taking advantage of the situation, and wants to use it to decimate everything, for it's own advantage. Since it's been created in a lab, I dont know what its capable of. I dont know if the virus itself is nanotechnology, and if those nanoparticles are spreadable from person to person. Maybe the virus is programmed to replicate unnatural human designed particles, and then is able to essentially have an on and off switch that can be turned remotely.
      Another one of my beliefs is that, due to chinese prophecy (I /think/ that it's in the book, tui bei tu, but you'll have to check what edge of wonder said in their video), basically, this virus will do what it's doing now, and then months later, just stop out of nowhere. No trace of it, and we all go back to normal. Then, 10 years from now, it will come back again, then disappear forever. The only way this can make sense is if the virus has an on off switch like what i described. Theres a lot more details to this that I would like to explain but people dont like reading long walls of text for some reason.

    • @erikeriks
      @erikeriks 4 роки тому +3

      It's funny because the mortality rate is actually rising like crazy so yes you're right it's getting more and more lethal. It used to be about 3% and now it's already 4.5%

  • @tomasgarza1249
    @tomasgarza1249 2 роки тому +35

    There is an interesting tweak that can be done:
    Separate the "removed" in dead and recovered.
    Every infected has a probability of becoming dead or recovered.
    Recovered become Susceptible after a long time (Due to losing the immunity or the virus mutating)

    • @cdmcfall
      @cdmcfall Рік тому +3

      I'd go even further and separate the recovered into immune and susceptible categories. Might also include non-human factors like animal reservoirs and mutations.

    • @GarryDumblowski
      @GarryDumblowski 2 місяці тому

      if you really want to be pedantic you could make the recovery/death ratio dependent on the current number of active cases (like if hospitals are overrun). Then you could put numbers to flattening the curve lowering the death toll even if the same total number of people got infected.

  • @StrawHat6
    @StrawHat6 4 роки тому +160

    This shouldn't be a PSA on "Social Distancing," this should be required viewing for Pandemics 101. Great introduction on the thought process and problem solving that can go into epidemiology. As usual, very approachable, 3B1B. Thanks again.

  • @myerloeb4948
    @myerloeb4948 4 роки тому +380

    18:00 "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"

  • @Harry-qh5rt
    @Harry-qh5rt 4 роки тому +466

    "maybe we don't value the heroes behind them the way we should"
    Well said

    • @joshuarohantitchener7395
      @joshuarohantitchener7395 4 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/0U_FBHKYqRk/v-deo.html

    • @vejymonsta3006
      @vejymonsta3006 4 роки тому +11

      Capitalism doesn't value anything that can't turn a profit today or tomorrow. That is why real heroes like that don't get the attention they deserve.

    • @nschoem
      @nschoem 4 роки тому +7

      It's like IT: do your job right, and no one will know you've done anything at all.

    • @karamjeetsembhi2028
      @karamjeetsembhi2028 4 роки тому +1

      Yes, They are the unsung heroes

  • @jasperbayless
    @jasperbayless 3 роки тому +63

    Right about now you can be saying "I TOLD YOU SO!!!"

  • @alopez545
    @alopez545 4 роки тому +14

    Grant, thank you for this great presentation on simulating an epidemic. These visualizations are outstanding for understanding how the numbers really work.

  • @manuroitman
    @manuroitman 4 роки тому +408

    "nope, I"m out" 11/10 would buy happily

    • @garrettk7166
      @garrettk7166 4 роки тому

      Already feeling the "Nope" desire.

  • @mightyowl1252
    @mightyowl1252 4 роки тому +227

    18:00 Now that’s called thinking outside the box.

    • @OriginalSuschi
      @OriginalSuschi 4 роки тому +7

      I'm fresh lolwalker

    • @ItReallyIsYaBoi
      @ItReallyIsYaBoi 4 роки тому +4

      those guys are us gamers having no problem sitting at our pc for weeks with literally no real life interaction

    • @joshuarohantitchener7395
      @joshuarohantitchener7395 4 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/0U_FBHKYqRk/v-deo.html
      the box can always be expanded

  • @adrianm7223
    @adrianm7223 4 роки тому +2

    Thank you for putting this out. The effectiveness of how you explained this is the best I have seen, in fact, I had to share it because now is the time to understand the impact of your observations.

  • @arisjones1792
    @arisjones1792 4 роки тому +1

    Brilliant job! Well done my friend. Very informative, nicely illustrated and calmly presented. Straight to the point. No loud music, No commercial. I just wish I could find more channels like this. BRAVO !!!

  • @Xelbiuj
    @Xelbiuj 4 роки тому +1172

    Countless pie people were murdered in the making of this video.

    • @laihela
      @laihela 4 роки тому +111

      *removed

    • @johnhodgson4216
      @johnhodgson4216 4 роки тому +3

      Infinte UA-cam Commentators cannot write a Shakespeare Play, only Monkeys

    • @inthefade
      @inthefade 4 роки тому +28

      Pi people? Pie people.

    • @tattarrrrattat
      @tattarrrrattat 4 роки тому +8

      we will never forget the fallen

    • @FeraleHubbard
      @FeraleHubbard 4 роки тому +1

      haha

  • @KiemPlant
    @KiemPlant 4 роки тому +149

    18:00 It's funny how a bug made the model more realistic.

    • @SmartK8
      @SmartK8 4 роки тому +2

      It's the preppers bugging out ;)

    • @wwvvvvvww
      @wwvvvvvww 4 роки тому +2

      After all human mind is not perfectly programmed codes.

    • @shivamcholin6760
      @shivamcholin6760 4 роки тому

      it was weird to even experience that , i guess the math package has some huge bugs in it

    • @laurv8370
      @laurv8370 4 роки тому

      yeah, world of warcraft all again... (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident)

    • @marouaneh175
      @marouaneh175 4 роки тому +2

      "It's not a bug, it's a feature" - every programmer at some point.

  • @namenamename390
    @namenamename390 3 роки тому +48

    "What if people avoid contact Wich others for a while, but then they kind of get tired and stop?"
    We don't have to simulate the answer to that question anymore, we have the real life data right here.

  • @joshgreen19
    @joshgreen19 3 роки тому +1

    Your content is amazing and sorely needed. Thank you!

  • @tacticallemon7518
    @tacticallemon7518 4 роки тому +692

    Here’s another idea to simulate: homes
    There’s small boxes outside of the main box, and each of those small boxes has 3 dots assigned to them.
    Each dot has a ‘role’
    1 dot has a ~25% chance to travel to a main area (grocery stores, restaurants etc.) on any day. Make three ‘hubs’ in the big box, with an equal chance for the ‘wonderers’ to travel to
    The second dot has a ~75% chance on any day to leave their house, but stay away from the ‘hubs’ and try to avoid other dots.
    The third dot has a ~10% chance to leave their house, but they stay right outside it.

    • @hezigler
      @hezigler 4 роки тому +31

      Tactical Lemon Excellent concept. I might disagree with your specs. I'm prejudice towards attempting to model a family. At that, you may have a good beginning with three adults, perhaps a married couple with an aging parent. Now we need to add two or three children, each with various levels of activities of interaction with the adults and some potential for going off short distances with the intent to inter act with other children in somewhat similar situations and possibly those children's parents or guardians. I think I 'be lost focus on modeling a single family and have started a neighborhood. Oh well, in a more comprehensive and complex model, we'd want a central city and suburbs. NYC and SF are exceptional. Urban geographers may have something to add...

    • @travcollier
      @travcollier 4 роки тому +8

      I was thinking that social distancing would probably be better modeled using many many small networks (families and tight social circles) as well.
      His "communities" simulation does seem to result in the most interesting and maybe useful results. Beyond the "test and isolate" result, which has been infectious disease dogma for about 400 years in the West (probably longer in China). Of course, we have much improved abilities to test and isolate now... wish we (the US) would have used them -_-

    • @m3po22
      @m3po22 4 роки тому +13

      I wonder if you could take a satellite image and set up the algorithm automatically. Identify structures, and then estimate the number of people who spend time there by the surface area it takes up. In big cities this would have to take into account the height of the buildings somehow I guess.

    • @ThylineTheGay
      @ThylineTheGay 4 роки тому

      yes

    • @OrlOnEarth
      @OrlOnEarth 4 роки тому +11

      @@m3po22 great idea but no need for satellite image, the phone network is enough, more accurate and you can track contaminated, that's exactly what they did in South Korea and China

  • @carykh
    @carykh 4 роки тому +183

    I like how the Pis are side-eyeing each other at 10:40. Like they're saying "Ew, it's YOU."

    • @wolframstahl1263
      @wolframstahl1263 4 роки тому +4

      Hey Cary, nice to see you around (though not surprising).
      Love your content, hope you're doing ok!

    • @shannu_boi
      @shannu_boi 4 роки тому +3

      Aye it's Cary!

    • @Zcon18
      @Zcon18 4 роки тому +2

      Yo, what is up my dude didn't expect to see you here, it seems like you're putting a lot of time into abacaba which is cool.

    • @simponic
      @simponic 4 роки тому +1

      Nice to see my daddy in 3b1b

    • @inthrutheoutdoor5849
      @inthrutheoutdoor5849 4 роки тому +1

      I do that at the grocery store now...

  • @docpelletier6630
    @docpelletier6630 2 роки тому +24

    I ran into this because I was looking at your Bayes' Theorem videos. However, it's now 2 years later. It's remarkable (or, as someone below put it, "ridiculous," how prescient this ended up being. It's so clear which paths we followed and how it ended up being just like you predicted.

  • @noraaaaaaa
    @noraaaaaaa 3 роки тому +9

    incredible. not only super fun to watch, but also simple to understand. such a shame that so many cannot wrap their heads around such a concept when this video exists.

  • @MattWhitmanTMBH
    @MattWhitmanTMBH 4 роки тому +885

    This is calm and reasonable and smart. A video like this is not only informative, but reassuring as well. Thanks for weaponizing your math brain to help people Grant.

    • @WillEhrendreich
      @WillEhrendreich 3 роки тому +6

      And thank you for doing exactly the same thing as Grant does, but with good natured snarky commentary about the Bible and history and Christianity things. You sir, are a treasure, juat like 3 blue 1 brown.

    • @rodgermilner7800
      @rodgermilner7800 3 роки тому +1

      I never expected to see you here. Love Mom

    • @robertkiestov3734
      @robertkiestov3734 3 роки тому

      The pandemic isn't real.

    • @robertkiestov3734
      @robertkiestov3734 3 роки тому

      @@gloekgloek3046 Damage control rabbi detected.

    • @igorpashev
      @igorpashev 2 роки тому

      and absolutely unrealistic: how to detect cases? where isolate them (at site)? R depends on absolute humidity. Distancing is bullshit, because respiratory disease can travel over kilometers.

  • @pallingtontheshrike6374
    @pallingtontheshrike6374 4 роки тому +444

    I'mma steal a comment I saw elsewhere:
    Actions taken before a pandemic are always "alarmist," and actions taken afterward are always "inadequate"

    • @kevinscales
      @kevinscales 4 роки тому +36

      So true, and it's soooo easy to criticize (and profitable if you are a journalist)

    • @ollerich32
      @ollerich32 4 роки тому +28

      I remember reading an article covering the spanish flu, where cities handled the outbreak differently. The city with strong early measures was accused of being alarmist and such, but many more people survived.

    • @nomoretalk2967
      @nomoretalk2967 4 роки тому +3

      tbh it depends. in France it was 1st inadequate then alarmist + inadequate again then nothing we'll surely be all dead by the end of the pandemia

    • @givrally7634
      @givrally7634 4 роки тому +5

      @@nomoretalk2967 That's in part because of the socio-economic factor : A lot of people are being (rightfully or not, I won't weigh in) angry with Macron, and whatever he does, they'll keep being angry. "Gilets jaunes", pensions reforms, all those people have a deep bias against him.
      Case in point, 2 weeks ago, on Thursday, he declared that schools and universities would close on Monday : He was called an alarmist. The next monday, he put confinement rules in place : He apparently did it "too late".

    • @Ragnarok540
      @Ragnarok540 4 роки тому +4

      Better to be an alarmist than a Trump. I mean, inadequate.

  • @jcartwright87
    @jcartwright87 3 роки тому +9

    Amazing work. This needs to be mandatory for everyone to learn.

  • @alexmendelev
    @alexmendelev 3 роки тому +1

    This video is absolutely amazing! Thanks for your great work!

  • @ArthurSeijiNishikawa
    @ArthurSeijiNishikawa 4 роки тому +30

    11:30 The way that the social distancing makes the dots in the top left box arrange themselves in a periodic/crystalline way, even forming grain boundaries, is so satisfying to watch!

    • @3blue1brown
      @3blue1brown  4 роки тому +14

      I agree, that was deeply satisfying.

    • @seanp4644
      @seanp4644 4 роки тому +1

      I NOTICED THAT TOO OMG the lil dots were forming crystals it was adorable

    • @matthewwebster4220
      @matthewwebster4220 4 роки тому +1

      @@3blue1brown It appears that the infection rate is different within a grain vs at the boundary. I was looking at this and wondering whether any effect from this or the geometry of the box could have any physical interpretation, or whether it is an artifact of how this was simulated.

    • @bahrss
      @bahrss 4 роки тому

      Oh, a chemist in the comment section)
      Hello there))

    • @paulkolodner2445
      @paulkolodner2445 4 роки тому +1

      That's known as a Wigner crystal. First observed in experiments in which electrons were poured onto the surface of liquid helium. The crystal becomes unstable at high density or as the level of fluctuations increases. Nicely explained in the Wikipedia article.

  • @Jakobknits
    @Jakobknits 4 роки тому +646

    This is a really good video and I really like how you've gamed out many different scenarios and shown their outcomes.
    My main criticism, and it's a pretty big one, is that you've given your preferred control mechanism, isolation of infected individuals, a huge advantage by not varying the lag between infection and isolation. I don't think isolation one day after infection is realistic for nCoV2 even in a scenario of very widespread testing. I would have liked to see how quickly the benefit of isolation falls as that lag grows to 2, 5, or 7 days.

    • @petariivanov7750
      @petariivanov7750 4 роки тому +129

      A well-structured, polite and respectful criticism that tries to constructively bring more options to the table of an important discussion. Surely a material to be explored in a similar video. Thank you

    • @brownsugarissupreme
      @brownsugarissupreme 4 роки тому +20

      Exactly. In our country, no protocols were made to address the pandemic until many confirmed cases were already reported and thus no efforts were made for social quarantine. It took weeks until the government responded. There's also the concern of the cases being way higher than actually reported.

    • @calmeilles
      @calmeilles 4 роки тому +21

      This is the problem that we have. It seems that covid-19 may be infections for a number of days before becoming symptomatic in the patient. Some estimates up to 14. Even if we can have proximity testing and contact tracing it would be insufficient.
      With any significant number of asymptomatic infections - whether or not they remain so - only full population testing *and* isolation of those testing positive could be effective in preventing further waves.

    • @rowanjones3476
      @rowanjones3476 4 роки тому +9

      ...And in some cases may remain asymptomatic and untested. Hence the importance of acting as though we might be infected.

    • @KoalaBear92
      @KoalaBear92 4 роки тому +8

      THIS!
      Also, I have the feeling that people are being "removed" way too quickly in his simulation, plus that the R0 for the real disease was around 3...
      It's a good video about infectious diseases in general, and about the effects of different measures against the spread of it.
      However, my fear is that people would underestimate the neccessity for social distancing/hygiene as they might think that isolating would have been the best anyway.
      Anyway, I still think this should be shared globally (I mean the video, not the disease), so that people really understand why the should keep their distance and keep their hygiene up!

  • @wb_0696
    @wb_0696 3 роки тому

    Thanks you’re passion. When i watch your videos, always i’m inspired.
    I want that you aren’t disappointed about youtube’s demonetization and have more confidence about your talent.
    I think until now made your videos deserve more interest and that will come true. I wish these words are good sounds to you.

  • @RedWinePlease
    @RedWinePlease 4 роки тому

    Excellent animation to support your takeaways. Understanding the exponential effects of a contagion is difficult. Your work makes it much easier to understand.
    Thank you and your supporters for this work.

  • @Feceroll
    @Feceroll 4 роки тому +1620

    Everyone is playing checkers while Grant is playing 23 dimensional Plague Inc

    • @Blusuri
      @Blusuri 4 роки тому +3

      Ha

    • @pcslug3122
      @pcslug3122 3 роки тому +1

      It was a good game.

    • @shebahammy
      @shebahammy 2 роки тому +1

      1000th like

    • @mathguy37
      @mathguy37 2 роки тому

      in 100D chess in minecraft using only basic redstone

    • @thebitch9224
      @thebitch9224 Рік тому

      Do you mean he was playing : “PARADOX-BILLIARDS-VOSTROYAN-ROULETTE-TENTH DIMENSIONAL-HYPERCUBE-CHESS-STRIPPOKER!”?

  • @mikikaboom9084
    @mikikaboom9084 4 роки тому +160

    17:57 The dots are going to Greenland

    • @wolframstahl1263
      @wolframstahl1263 4 роки тому +12

      Covid managed to reach Greenland (and Iceland) surprisingly early. Madagascar managed to keep it out for quite a while.

    • @yunusaliakbas9192
      @yunusaliakbas9192 4 роки тому +4

      Mikołaj Kuziuk only OG’s will understand.

    • @wayway7017
      @wayway7017 4 роки тому

      good joke man

    • @polvy
      @polvy 4 роки тому +1

      I'd say those dots are going to North Korea

    • @Kastor774
      @Kastor774 4 роки тому +1

      Plague Inc player clearly invested in cold resistance and water transmission early. Well played

  • @Tepalus
    @Tepalus 2 роки тому +5

    17:58 "It's not a bug, it's a feature"
    Storytelling done by an error in your code. Nice. 👌🏽

  • @Oxideacid
    @Oxideacid 3 роки тому +71

    "The most dangerous viruses are the ones who only kill some of the host"
    Plague Inc. players: **sweats nervously**

    • @eclipse_darkpaw
      @eclipse_darkpaw 3 роки тому +7

      I mean this strategy is effective, make it not have deadly symptoms but incredibly infectious, and youll end up with the majority infected and able to transmit. Then you throw in all the deadly symptoms, and kill everyone

    • @QuadLamb
      @QuadLamb 3 роки тому +4

      The optimal plague inc strategy for mega brutal uses an aggressive amount of symptoms with a tiny bit of lethality, and then crank it up when you make bodies stay infective and after you’re in all countries.

  • @lucca7716
    @lucca7716 4 роки тому +162

    9:52 is the main strategy in Plague Inc.

    • @wolframstahl1263
      @wolframstahl1263 4 роки тому +29

      When he talked about how diceased individuals will not stay infective, I immediately thought "true, unless I evolve necrosis for my plague".

    • @PeterAuto1
      @PeterAuto1 4 роки тому

      I was also thinking about that

    • @pouzivateljutube2995
      @pouzivateljutube2995 4 роки тому

      Exactly

    • @OrchidAlloy
      @OrchidAlloy 4 роки тому

      You mean the bad strategy.

  • @elitelavamage
    @elitelavamage 4 роки тому +523

    im curious how having multiple central locations like a school and a few grocery stores will change this assuming that every dot picks 1 of the 3 to visit also it would be interesting to see how things would change if dots try to stay in clumps similar to a family staying at home

    • @QalinaCom
      @QalinaCom 4 роки тому +19

      I think it dosn't matter if one person out of the family does the shopping, as he earlier talked about people in close proximity are at risk. Eventually the whole family will get it.

    • @harlisviikmae6240
      @harlisviikmae6240 4 роки тому +39

      Just imagine the dot being a family, if one gets sick probably everyone else will as well.

    • @evansaschow
      @evansaschow 4 роки тому +5

      QalinaCom the families are also just a similar case to the 12 different communities. Just apply many communities of size 1-7 within each community and you’ve effectively simulated a family

    • @dominik262
      @dominik262 4 роки тому

      Model with visiting "city centers" works that way

    • @n8programs733
      @n8programs733 4 роки тому +3

      I built a simulation that takes into account school & work (along with household life):
      n8python.github.io/epidemicSimulation/
      I explain it here:
      ua-cam.com/video/Yo1rL0hqHAQ/v-deo.html

  • @martindavies8153
    @martindavies8153 4 роки тому

    An exceptional piece of work. Informative and well presented. Thank you for sharing.

  • @adamabele785
    @adamabele785 3 роки тому +3

    Thank you for making this video. It probably has saved some lives.

  • @LutfiAziz
    @LutfiAziz 4 роки тому +1349

    Day 69:
    Dots became sentient, and worked together to escape

    • @Fawstah
      @Fawstah 4 роки тому +2

      Lutfi H nice

    • @NourAhmed-go5jo
      @NourAhmed-go5jo 4 роки тому +6

      They are PI not dot

    • @TheChzoronzon
      @TheChzoronzon 4 роки тому +34

      Day 69 is always particularly auspicious for working together towards a common goal

    • @Nippleless_Cage
      @Nippleless_Cage 4 роки тому +7

      I think the escaped dots represent the people who saw the direction the world was going and preemptively committed suicide. I'm in college and it happened to two of my friends, one of whom I was pretty close with.

    • @Basky008
      @Basky008 4 роки тому +2

      Pi-Net is coming!!

  • @mellinghedd267
    @mellinghedd267 4 роки тому +247

    Numberphile: Who are you?
    3B1B: I'm you but more polished.

    • @msclrhd
      @msclrhd 4 роки тому +51

      Numberphile talked about the underlying mathematics and how to construct the SIR models, 3B1B talked about how to experiment with those models in order to test and predict different containment strategies.

    • @faeton9359
      @faeton9359 4 роки тому +4

      nope

    • @imranq9241
      @imranq9241 4 роки тому +12

      They are completely different

    • @cityuser
      @cityuser 4 роки тому +10

      Different videos. You could actually follow along Numberphile's model, meanwhile this is just a showcase.

    • @Zcon18
      @Zcon18 4 роки тому

      AHAAHA

  • @iuscoandrei17
    @iuscoandrei17 4 роки тому

    this is great info right here, i love to know more about statistics and graphs, especially on important things. Your videos are great, i'm glad i have subscribed to you

  • @0tobsam0
    @0tobsam0 3 роки тому +37

    I love this channel... My university frequently refers to your videos as a good learning resource and I absolutely agree! (Also, I've known this channel for years, so I'm happy to see that my university approves it as a good source :) )

  • @massimilianoc2436
    @massimilianoc2436 4 роки тому +218

    2 years ago, in a completely different simulation, I had my circles escaping the box when I added a repulsive force to solve collisions! I laughed a lot here. Nevertheless, many thanks for this great video (as usual). Cheers from Italy.

    • @susanne5803
      @susanne5803 4 роки тому +20

      All the best wishes to Italy!

    • @ranevc
      @ranevc 4 роки тому +17

      Stay healthy in Italy!

    • @riddhimanna8437
      @riddhimanna8437 4 роки тому +2

      Take care and stay healthy

    • @thebubbler2832
      @thebubbler2832 4 роки тому +1

      Almost like it was designed

    • @Shaurya_Pant
      @Shaurya_Pant 4 роки тому +1

      Where and how are these simulations done? Can you please tell?
      Is is just python with some libraries or is there some other specific software for this purpose?

  • @marcorempfer1187
    @marcorempfer1187 4 роки тому +207

    "even when all the parameters are the same, some runs take three times longer to reach this point than others"
    This deserves more than just a side note.
    With agents starting at random locations and then moving around randomly, you are likely to end up with a chaotic system.
    It cannot be stressed enough how crucial it is to have multiple test runs for each set of parameters.
    For some parameter sets, you might end up with almost everybody infected in one run and the infection quickly dying away in another run, just due to random fluctuations.
    Virus simulations (as well as economic simulations and weather forecasts for that matter) can be highly susceptible to random noise.

    • @jameslynch8738
      @jameslynch8738 4 роки тому +7

      @@00O3O1B Yes, a nice followup would include a qualitative analysis of the official numbers and adjustments that can be added to the series of algorithms. Even though at some point all you can do is measure the overall statistics, once the fundamental parameters of the virus are accounted for then you can isolate effects of behavioral interventions such as limiting borders, etc. I for one am interested in the cumulative effect of panic shopping and hoarding on the broader population in exacerbating issues. Those who could afford to prepare would do in excess immediately when it would have an exaggerated effect on those with lower income and it took weeks for stores to enact any restrictions to buffer the impacts.
      Another major factor as this goes further will be housing instability and population movement, as that increases it will negate the effectiveness of travel restrictions.

    • @3blue1brown
      @3blue1brown  4 роки тому +85

      Excellent point! This is why I started all the actions in this video once there was a sufficient number of cases. For each one I showed, I rand multiple to be sure they were qualitatively the same and tried to comment when they weren't. For proper modeling (as opposed to demonstration videos), you'd, of course, want to run many and find the right way to aggregate the results into your summaries.

    • @SeraphX2
      @SeraphX2 4 роки тому

      @@3blue1brown So does this mean we really had to destroy the American economy to achieve this? Once the tests were available (today being maybe a few days to a week where proper testing has been a bit more consistent) could we have lifted the ban like, this week (03/28), now that we know we can test and isolate effectively? It really looked like once you have a grasp on testing and isolation, you could still live your life as long as you were being super hygienic. But can we count on EVERYONE being hygienic? Did you model only partial hygiene?

    • @coffeestainedwreck
      @coffeestainedwreck 4 роки тому +9

      @@SeraphX2 I'm not sure the US is able to test and trace it's way out of this yet, but you're right that effective testing and isolation can halt the spread and prevent second waves (South Korea and Taiwan being excellent examples of this) with much less disruption. The disruption (and economic damage) will end when the disease does, and the fastest way to do that is to catch up with the disease as soon as possible. Shutdowns and distancing are important in getting to that point.

    • @jacobcastro1885
      @jacobcastro1885 4 роки тому

      @@SeraphX2 the model would perhaps have to take into account hygiene/isolation compliance based on infection prevalence (fear) inorder to measure the effectiveness of public policy.

  • @MrDuck777
    @MrDuck777 4 роки тому

    Beautiful visualization . Thank you!

  • @MrCasulu
    @MrCasulu 4 роки тому +3

    Awesome video!
    I’d like to comment on the central hubs and the asymptomatic people.
    - Central hubs: I see that there are fundamentally different types of hubs (let me call it social gathering hot spots): markets (with limited intimate contact between participants); sport events (stadiums, where after a game supporters will hug each other and go out to drink some biers in large groups); and pubs, bars,discotheques (where people get physically very close to a large number of other people). I’d believe that the R on every of these types of hot spots is very different, so to determine what kind of event should be allowed at a given phase of a lockdown phase, it would be interesting to simulate them separately.
    - Rate of infection: I wonder if asymptomatic people (some of the yellow dots in your simulation), are as infectious as those that have symptoms (and sneeze and caught). Not sure how much this would change the simulations though...
    Finally, I have the feeling that mobility is very hard to model accurately. When I look at the concrete cases around me, I see that people do not move socially randomly like mostly made in simulations I’ve seen. Rather, we tend have a large number of contacts inside our immediate family, then a bit less with the colleagues in same the office, finally much less frequently with our friends/sport pals, finally with the rest of the community (in supermarkets, restaurants, bars, etc). In the of the simulations, it’s as if you create another layer of boxes within each community box. Inside those smaller boxes it is very difficult to enforce social distancing, but between them it’s easier to do it (eg close all restaurants and stop sport events, etc). I would expect that one could relax the social distancing rules inside a “micro box” (eg family, close friends, maybe office colleagues) while enforcing strict rules for other interactions (eg in those social hot spots that I mentioned before) and still get similar results that one obtain by asking every single person to observe strict social distancing to absolutely everyone (outside own’s household). (Off course, risk persons need strict social distancing from everyone, in my opinion).
    The purpose of all this talk... is that it’s easier for a society to follow some sort of tolerant social rules for a long time rather than very stringent (and certainly very effective) rules. If the rules are very stringent, humans can only follow them for weeks, not months, and start being careless after some time. I live in Switzerland and I can observe that after several weeks of carefully the following social distance rules, recently almost everyone started not to follow them at all...
    In any case, huge appraisal for your work !

  • @PunchBug-nd3pp
    @PunchBug-nd3pp 4 роки тому +437

    This video was so popular they started doing this in real life

    • @fishyeverything8530
      @fishyeverything8530 4 роки тому +2

      Uderated comment

    • @aramzyf
      @aramzyf 4 роки тому +1

      go up my friend

    • @Ethan-rw7ub
      @Ethan-rw7ub 4 роки тому +1

      I hope nobody tried to reanimate the control case scenario lol

  • @ThePsychicProject
    @ThePsychicProject 4 роки тому +180

    UA-cam likes to recommend me news videos instead. RECOMMEND THIS GUY

    • @laurinneff4304
      @laurinneff4304 4 роки тому +2

      Watch more of his videos, at some point it'll start recommending his videos

    • @KiemPlant
      @KiemPlant 4 роки тому +1

      I was recommended this video, but then again im subscribed as well so that kinda makes sense.

  • @bhageshmaheshwari2807
    @bhageshmaheshwari2807 3 роки тому

    Wondeful video. So lovely the way you use Pi as character to express different emotions.

  • @arwahsapi
    @arwahsapi 4 роки тому +5

    I am more amazed to how you put up all this into scintillating presentation rather than the content itself. We already got tons of scientific journals and publications but good visualizers are what the world lacks now.

  • @mehrdadanvar8518
    @mehrdadanvar8518 4 роки тому +36

    this series of animations were so stunning. Never before had I seen such a great educational content. I am a general physician and I had to go through a lot to remind my patients and families to practice social distancing. I broke my back, trying to simulate the epidemic during the recent 3-weeks . and here you did it perfectly. We owe you all!

  • @Bartooc
    @Bartooc 4 роки тому +487

    Pandemic starts
    Medics: It's hell on Earth
    Mathematicians: It's free real estate

    • @diatomsaus
      @diatomsaus 4 роки тому +85

      People dropping dead from the virus.
      Mathematicians: They are removed

    • @Ethan-rw7ub
      @Ethan-rw7ub 4 роки тому

      LMAO why not right?

    • @TommyWeber
      @TommyWeber 4 роки тому

      Bartooc ua-cam.com/video/I6HM12hpblI/v-deo.html

  • @valisv
    @valisv 3 роки тому

    So true! Excellent simulations! Congrats...

  • @Hexor1211
    @Hexor1211 4 роки тому +1

    16:17 up to 16:30 This comparison is information I was looking for some time. Thank you 3Blue1Brown.

  • @itsnotyasir
    @itsnotyasir 4 роки тому +226

    Everyone: It's a Pandemic.
    3B1B: Well, It's also math.

    • @oldcowbb
      @oldcowbb 4 роки тому +17

      surprise surprise, the best tool human invented is related to everything

    • @michaelhedrick589
      @michaelhedrick589 4 роки тому

      *Inhale*
      MATH RULES
      *Exhale*

    • @joshuarohantitchener7395
      @joshuarohantitchener7395 4 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/0U_FBHKYqRk/v-deo.html
      math is art

  • @cesarjom
    @cesarjom 4 роки тому +327

    The "second wave" scenario is why it will be very challenging to determine an end date to the social distancing, shelter in place, etc strategies, that is until a COVID-19 vaccine is available to the global population.

    • @ApaX1981
      @ApaX1981 4 роки тому +25

      Well....this will change our lives for the comming year atleast. There is not going to be an end very soon.

    • @JohnnyProductionsOfficialTM
      @JohnnyProductionsOfficialTM 4 роки тому +7

      It takes like a year to make a vaccine.

    • @AngusMcIntyre
      @AngusMcIntyre 4 роки тому +18

      @@JohnnyProductionsOfficialTM depends how many rules you want to break!

    • @VBYTP
      @VBYTP 4 роки тому +4

      We need to just man up and all get it, so we can get back to work and the economy can recover

    • @paulkennedy8701
      @paulkennedy8701 4 роки тому +35

      @@VBYTP
      Sure. The millions who will die that way are all old or weak or poor or unlucky. I'm sure you won't know any of them

  • @MehdyLeclaire
    @MehdyLeclaire 3 роки тому

    WOW, i Love this one!
    early on, decided to share it (but first i'll watch it to the end)
    then to like, and thought that"s not enough, so also to subscribe
    (first time here on the channel, by "accident", not an easy "subscriber", even less to post a comment)
    then i realized, sharing (helps) makes it viral
    or even (hopefully) pandemic !
    ;)
    Thanks for the hard work
    and the inspiration,
    it is now clearer how i want to use my programming skills
    just when i needed it!
    Thanks!

  • @brian.-_393i3.-_
    @brian.-_393i3.-_ 3 роки тому

    Thanks for this video, it is so helpful! Already sharing!

  • @eviv8010
    @eviv8010 4 роки тому +77

    No blue dots were harmed in the making of this film.

  • @craftie7721
    @craftie7721 4 роки тому +183

    I'd really like to see a large version of this simulation run with parameters close to what we're experiencing in real life. It'll be like looking into the future.
    For example:
    - 32 "communities", 4 of which will contain central hubs and 4 of which will contain a central market
    - 100% are asymptomatic for 3 days; 80% will show symptoms afterwards
    - 70% will be quarantined after 1 day of showing symptoms
    - The infection goes away after 14 days
    - The infection radius is the same as in this video
    - Recovered patients are immune to future infections
    - 0.005% of people can go into total isolation ("leave the box") per day
    - Travel rate between communities is normal (0.2) until a certain threshold is met (in which case, travel rates will go down by 75%)
    - Social Distancing rate is low (20%) until a certain threshold is met (in which case, social distancing goes up to 75%, then 95% if things get nasty)
    - Infection rate is high (0.2) until a certain threshold is met (in which case, infection rates are cut in half)
    - For the first time only, if the number of active cases falls below a certain threshold, travel rates, social distancing, and infection rates go back to normal
    - Certain Threshold: 0.5% of the population is infected
    NOTE: The virus's actual asymptomatic period can go up to 14 days, and according to zemerick13, the infection can last a lot longer than 14 days.

    • @supernovaw39
      @supernovaw39 4 роки тому +14

      That .5% threshold doesn't sound good. There would be 3 000 infected people in my city, for instance.

    • @Alistair
      @Alistair 4 роки тому +7

      @@supernovaw39 if 3000 were infected that would mean only 12 dead, 11 of which were about to die shortly anyway

    • @toddhoward7125
      @toddhoward7125 4 роки тому +17

      His source code is in the description, if anyone wants to try

    • @sfurules
      @sfurules 4 роки тому +6

      3Blue1Brown is far too smart to have not run that simulation...so I worry that its ("its" being Craftie!'s simulation idea, which I think is brilliant) lack of inclusion might be a sign that the results aren't....uh...valuable....at the moment.....no now that I think about it 3Blue1Brown is likely far too ethical to run that simulation and not include it in the video regardless of what it might indicate.
      They should!

    • @jcims
      @jcims 4 роки тому +6

      - Would be interesting to model three stages of contagious 1 - asymptomatic (normal mobility) 2 - symptomatic but home (greater isolation) 3 - hospitilization (isolated)

  • @wormbaby666
    @wormbaby666 4 роки тому

    That is a great video! More people need to see this! Great job!

  • @GSCt1000
    @GSCt1000 3 роки тому

    This is the most elegant mathematical model for 2020. Absolutely beautiful work.
    Thanks.. hopefully this would inspire a few more young pups to be interested in maths.

  • @davidpiepgrass743
    @davidpiepgrass743 4 роки тому +262

    A "full city" model would be interesting... households with a few people each, workplaces, schools, markets, hospitals, retirement homes with younger workers, quarantine zones, X% asymptomatic cases... toilet paper hoarders...

    • @SouthernHerdsman
      @SouthernHerdsman 4 роки тому +13

      Imagine all the world's intelligence agency doesn't have a package like that in their tool suite. This means governments are being purposefully dumb to become Thanos.

    • @asddsaaassddd
      @asddsaaassddd 4 роки тому +8

      simulation like that would be very time and computationally costly.

    • @slartybarfastb3648
      @slartybarfastb3648 4 роки тому +1

      @@SouthernHerdsman I'm certain some intelligence agencies do have that capability and model it thoroughly before releasing these pathogens against opposing nations. What do you think we're experiencing right now? A mistake, or a cold, calculated attack? There will be be a long train of conflict following this. Whether it was an intentional attack, an accidental release, or a natural occurrence, this will lead to war.

    • @paulmartin42
      @paulmartin42 4 роки тому +2

      @@slartybarfastb3648 Cheer up

    • @dreggory82
      @dreggory82 4 роки тому +1

      But for it to be even more accurate, surfaces touched and air that was coughed in would have to be added.

  • @thankyouforthismanysubscri4521
    @thankyouforthismanysubscri4521 4 роки тому +166

    9:15 Anyone who has played Pandemic 2 knows this. If you give your victims internal hemorrhaging immediately, you'll lose pretty quickly. If you infect the entire world with no symptoms at all, then instantly mutate organ failure, you'll win (assuming you started in Madagascar which, as we all know, is the safest place on Earth). Thank god diseases don't suddenly mutate kill-switches like that in real life.

    • @TehIdiotOne
      @TehIdiotOne 4 роки тому +37

      Well, diseases *can* mutate and suddenly become more deadly, but that just makes a new strand that doesen't affect the already infected people.

    • @yoavsnake
      @yoavsnake 4 роки тому +19

      Thankfully this is not exactly the case in real life. While the coronavirus already has a few slightly different strains, viruses aren't hiveminds that can mutate all at once.

    • @NoNameAtAll2
      @NoNameAtAll2 4 роки тому +17

      you still lose because of Greenland

    • @Douglas.Kennedy
      @Douglas.Kennedy 4 роки тому +4

      How about make a virus with a long incubation and non-symptomatic spread time, with a 20x flu chance of death at the end?

    • @IStMl
      @IStMl 4 роки тому +3

      Greenland is the safest not Madagascar

  • @jorgehmarquezr.3037
    @jorgehmarquezr.3037 4 роки тому

    Excellent description of 3 variables

  • @Pandorum92
    @Pandorum92 2 роки тому

    This is really awesome. Great work and keep it up :-)

  • @null4331
    @null4331 4 роки тому +318

    Outbreak: *starts*
    Dots: Ight imma head out

    • @kaboomwinn4026
      @kaboomwinn4026 4 роки тому +4

      Some people have a temptation to travel on airplanes when there an epidemic at 17:50

    • @nerobernardino88
      @nerobernardino88 4 роки тому +1

      Just look at how damn fast it spread to the four corners of this earth.
      Someone: *coughs* Guess I'll explore the world!

    • @hgcgggfdftaa3539
      @hgcgggfdftaa3539 4 роки тому

      @@kaboomwinn4026 #epidemic

  • @3blue1brown
    @3blue1brown  4 роки тому +3331

    If you want more information on COVID-19 from someone who _is_ an expert, I found this MSRI talk to be quite good: ua-cam.com/video/MZ957qhzcjI/v-deo.html
    While here we looked at what you might call an "agent-based" SIR model, if you want to see what it looks like as a set of differential equations, Ben Sparks just did a lovely video on the topic over at Numberphile: ua-cam.com/video/k6nLfCbAzgo/v-deo.html
    There are a few reasons I like the agent-based model here, for demo purposes at least. It's a bit easier to understand for those who are not comfortable yet with ODEs, for one. It also conveys how things are not deterministic; no real-world curve will look as smooth as the differential equations. It also makes it way easier to ask questions and bake other assumptions into the model. Introducing things like travel or community centers into the differential equations would get very hairy very quickly. For those who want to go much more deeply into this, the Institute for Disease Modeling has a lot of models free for people to look at and play with.

    • @the_real_editor
      @the_real_editor 4 роки тому +7

      Cool!

    • @johnchessant3012
      @johnchessant3012 4 роки тому +3

      Cool!

    • @Zcon18
      @Zcon18 4 роки тому +17

      LOVE THIS CHANNEL THANK YOU GRANT

    • @viliml2763
      @viliml2763 4 роки тому +11

      Isn't quarantine the exact same thing as lowering the time it takes to become Removed?

    • @xX_dash_Xx
      @xX_dash_Xx 4 роки тому +5

      my man pulled out big stats and big epidemiology brain for this

  • @redaxxx
    @redaxxx 2 роки тому +9

    A remake of this including re-infections would be super interesting

  • @ravraid
    @ravraid 3 роки тому

    This is the best of instruction: well thought through and incredibly well presented in layman's terms. It is a service to all. Thanks very much.

  • @sanko111
    @sanko111 4 роки тому +53

    18:00 When the model is so realistic, it includes existing real life behavior that's clearly outside the initial assumptions that were strictly programmed in.

  • @pantsik2
    @pantsik2 4 роки тому +56

    Until now, I admired 3B1B for his amazing illustration. Now I also admire him for his social contribution.

  • @nounoucity2933
    @nounoucity2933 4 роки тому

    Great Tuto ,the info on this video are so Precious, thanks for sharing 👍

  • @allanpratt1861
    @allanpratt1861 3 роки тому

    Wow fantastic video, it seems your bang on with the simulations.. I wish I had watched this last year would of chilled me out abit more.

  • @CreepyMagician
    @CreepyMagician 4 роки тому +53

    As a high school math teacher, I'm making this video a recommended watch by all my student (especially those in Algebra 2, who were just learning about exponential growth functions. THANK YOU!

  • @danielmessier9845
    @danielmessier9845 4 роки тому +121

    This video answers literally all the math related questions I've been having about this whole thing.

    • @johnschneider8339
      @johnschneider8339 3 роки тому

      The Covid-19 is a HOAX. Corona-Virus has never been isolated and checked with the 3 Postulates of Robert Koch. Pasteur has treated the whole lot/world ! ALL HAS BEEN PROVEN!!!! Social distance is DEADLY for society...

  • @ishanpednekar6576
    @ishanpednekar6576 3 роки тому +1

    One of the three best videos on Covid19 on UA-cam (Edit:The other's are Kurzgesagt's and your other video)
    Thank you 3B1B

  • @decract
    @decract 8 місяців тому +2

    1:49 anyone gonna talk about how cute that pi are?

  • @jasonfeng3888
    @jasonfeng3888 4 роки тому +148

    Man 3Blue1Brown coming in clutch during these quarantine hours

  • @jhuny
    @jhuny 4 роки тому +70

    Wasn't expecting to feel such a wide range of emotions watching some pi symbols and dots shuffling about the screen. And genuinely funny moments too (the dots leaving the Bay Area lols) Great video!

  • @adamgoyer2077
    @adamgoyer2077 3 роки тому

    Thank you for your continued excellent and most helpful work.

  • @wooslab5364
    @wooslab5364 3 роки тому

    you gave me an idea to make a vid. thank you so much!

  • @mustafamalik4211
    @mustafamalik4211 4 роки тому +73

    1:32 I like how those Pi's become sad whenever they get infected.

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 4 роки тому

      Mustafa Malik
      Most of us feel miserable when ill, don’t we?

    • @michaelhedrick589
      @michaelhedrick589 4 роки тому

      ☹️

  • @50millANDaSuit
    @50millANDaSuit 4 роки тому +183

    Sir, honestly: the simulations and analyses were so well done and have so much common sense that I tilt my hat to your work in gratitude! I am definitely becoming a patron!

    • @LizNeptune
      @LizNeptune 4 роки тому +2

      is that hat a fedora by any chance?

  • @christopherinman6833
    @christopherinman6833 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you. Really nice. I like a simulation like this the way I used to like novels which do more than just entertain, i.e. gets things gist about right.

  • @user-zc6bv8ej9g
    @user-zc6bv8ej9g 3 роки тому +1

    Very informative and comparable simulations. I look forward to the vdo that you will explain the equations behind these simulations.

  • @ChazCharlie1
    @ChazCharlie1 4 роки тому +33

    I love how the 100% social distancing case created a crystal

  • @m.leesmith6157
    @m.leesmith6157 4 роки тому +276

    The "escaped dots" around17:50 are the people leaving big cities.

    • @Moonsaa
      @Moonsaa 4 роки тому +9

      They are the people leaving where ever they are currently. You shouldn't move anywhere for any reason.

    • @AngleSideSideThm
      @AngleSideSideThm 4 роки тому +14

      I'd say they're more like preppers retreating to their bunkers.

    • @5-minute-witness356
      @5-minute-witness356 4 роки тому +5

      @@AngleSideSideThm Preppers heading for bunkers are less risky dots than dots isolated at home. They won't infect anyone or get infected, because they are REALLY staying put. They aren't even going to grocery stores.

    • @ralphhardie7492
      @ralphhardie7492 4 роки тому +2

      Going to Florida

    • @_-_-_-_
      @_-_-_-_ 4 роки тому +1

      @@Ricardo-C Your fascism is showing.

  • @mcgravitybuilding7346
    @mcgravitybuilding7346 4 роки тому

    I’m sharing this video! It’s great information!

  • @MAMINERVINO
    @MAMINERVINO 4 роки тому

    Amazing Work! Congratulations!

  • @Maxime4377
    @Maxime4377 4 роки тому +23

    18:04 "It's not a bug, it's a feature" you nailed it

  • @youssefderrazi6246
    @youssefderrazi6246 4 роки тому +153

    21:43 : "I'm writing this during a pandemic." That just hit hard.

    • @StevenMartinGuitar
      @StevenMartinGuitar 4 роки тому +4

      Why, you didn't know already? We're on legal lockdown here in the UK

    • @Thisisahandle701
      @Thisisahandle701 4 роки тому +7

      @@StevenMartinGuitar You think you're special? All of Europe is in lockdown. -That's how you sound, by the way.

    • @miguelgazquez5717
      @miguelgazquez5717 4 роки тому +8

      @@Thisisahandle701 He just live in UK, so he say that he is on legal lockdown, on UK. What's the problem ? You think you're special ? In India population is on lockdown, and so for the majority of people in the world. As far as I know, there is 3 billions of persons in lockdown( ~ 700 millions people in Europe)

    • @jadeblades
      @jadeblades 4 роки тому +4

      @@miguelgazquez5717 not the point lmao

  • @beanmariocow8601
    @beanmariocow8601 3 роки тому +333

    did anyone else pick a dot and then see if they would survive

    • @bobtheagent9087
      @bobtheagent9087 3 роки тому +23

      They are too small for my phone plus it’s hard to track them

    • @NoriMori1992
      @NoriMori1992 3 роки тому +17

      No but I might try it now.

    • @markwilson2421
      @markwilson2421 3 роки тому +2

      You should only do so if you're older than 75 otherwise this is no different to the flu

    • @Memerath
      @Memerath 3 роки тому +16

      @@markwilson2421 hey bro, you dropped your shitty opinion in this unrelated comment’s replies

    • @Memerath
      @Memerath 3 роки тому

      @Tahmid alpha12 you right, thx

  • @jeremylynwood3604
    @jeremylynwood3604 4 роки тому

    Phenomenal video. Very well done and very informative.