Re: "Understand the technicalities in a way I couldn't do"
Anyone with a good A level in maths, a Stem degree, a job as a secondary school maths teacher, .... would have understood exponential growth well enough to see that exponential growth plus a lethality of 1% means trouble. That's probably million people able to explain it to the Prime Minister. Why on earth isn't one out of that million actually Prime Minister?