Today Finland decided to close it’s borders, schools, cultural public mass gathering places such as libraries, the National Opera and such to protect the weak and the old from getting infected with a virus potentially deadly to them.
The part of Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s speech, which caught a data-man’s ear, was that testing for infections with the virus are scaled up so we can later retrospectively analyze how the virus moved through Finland and thus get info on how maybe prevent the next one.
This is data leadership.
I will now go back to my desk and continue working remotely. Some decisions save lives. No country has infinite resources for intensive care patients.
Flatter curves are better than surges.
