They are taking one of the most vibrant and resilient franchises of all time and attempting to create a variation on the genuinely groundbreaking Marvel Universe film franchise.

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Crucial variables for such forecasts, like the average time from infection to disease in people, or the variation around that average, simply cannot be determined yet.

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But there will likely be a slight variation, based on how the 49ers responded last time to it.

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In other words that if the occurrence of something is abnormally high or abnormally low simply because of random variation, the statistical chances are that it will be much closer to the average the next time you measure it.

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