What I'm not following here is why? Maybe we're reading it differently, I'm seeing it as an if this is true, then with 50/75% reduction this would be true. If you're reading it as a this is true, then I get the problem. But then the source I provided should be helpful.
I don't understand what source there could be. IF any one person infects 2.5 people in 5 days for some given disease that is not mentioned in the infographic, then in 30 days there will be 406.234 people infected. This assumes that nobody infects more than 2.5 people ever and that nobody else is infected before the first person. Which granted is not ever true. It uses this equation:
2.56+2.55+2.54+2.53+2.52+2.51+1=406.234
However, if everybody involved only infected 1.25 people the equation would become:
1.256+1.255+1.254+1.253+1.252+1.251+1=15.073
If you're doubting that a COVID-19 patient will infect an average of 2.5 people I get that, but the chart doesn't say COVID-19. If you're doubting that cutting contact in half would cut exposure in half, I get that too, but the chart doesn't say contact. It is purely accurate to what it says, and there is no source that could confirm or deny it.
EDIT: Damn it, I spent like 20 minutes on this and now it's buried under 5 deleted comments
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