You are assuming people are only interested in the slope. Then the constant does...

		amai on March 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Log-log plot of new vs. total Covid-19 cases by co... You are assuming people are only interested in the slope. Then the constant doesn't matter. But it does matter when you want to know which country is an infection hot spot or not. A thousand cases in the US is something completely different from a thousand cases in Vatican city.