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>200 dead despite intensive care; at least an order of magnitude more deadly than the flu, highly mobile w/ no vaccine, just declared a global health emergency by the WHO, and WIRED's contribution is ...*drumroll*... border health checks are authoritarian

We Should Deescalate the War on the Coronavirus

Fear, finger-pointing, and militaristic action against the virus are predictable, but unproductive. We may be better off adjusting to a new normal of periodic outbreaks.

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If there was a planet of sociologists and they had a 50 year warning that an asteroid was headed for them I honestly wouldn’t put money on them summoning the will to survive. Plenty of thinkpieces on the cultural significance of annihilation would be published though

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“Asteroids have a long and well established tradition of slamming into planetary bodies at great speed and force - who are we to interfere?”

12:28 PM · Jan 31, 2020

underrated tweet