I find it strange that even on HN we seem to fall into the trap of holding up people's opinions who ostensibly know nothing special about the subject. This guy is an engineer not a public health expert, why are we holding his thoughts and advice in particular esteem?
The rate at which this has spread in Italy is a two sided coin in my opinion.<p>It means the "found" cases are grossly under representative, and probably deaths is a more meaningful statistic. But on the upside it also means the virus is probably not as lethal as the 3% figure, as it has passed through many people uncounted.
Not trying to be negative, but this seems to me as a appeal to non-authority bias, specially the way the title is written.<p>For the fun of it, let's reverse it:<p>Adhanom (OMS General Manager): Redis is way better than memcached