Right now everyone sensible is staying home and spending extra time online. This means that right now the progressive egregore is working on the messaging problem from the corona virus as if their lives depended on it - because they do. 1/x
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They control the institutions so a "victory" for them here is just throwing out noise so there isn't a giant preference cascade where everyone knows that everyone else knows that etc. about the failure. Look at AIDS for an example. 4/x
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When AIDS appeared some tried to use it as a win and to push progressivism but the most important thing was to make sure that no one took the lesson "gay liberation created a plague in under a decade" Most have never even heard of this argument. 5/x
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This is what they're working on right now - counter messaging of some kind to throw off recognition of those two very simple lessons above. 6/8
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First, our institutions are hollowed out and stunningly incompetent due to their staffing by low quality people - because positions are payoffs to the
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Making the world into one interconnected system where it's unthinkable to even have the *ability* to isolate (because if it was possible, someone might use that capacity) means having no defense against plagues - which can arise at any time. 8/8
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Disagree that they're motivated by protecting high finance but yeah, that's one way to distract from the lessons and Charlie Kirk types will love to play along. Keep an eye out for this pattern as camouflage. https://twitter.com/OnlineDissident/status/1239054831932891136 …
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1950s America could have done this. Today's America has no chance in hell of "centralized quarantine"…pic.twitter.com/RJWHiSzx7j
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Uh, why isn't (2) "Cheap, ubiquitous air travel has brought a pandemic"? Right-wing concerns about immigration usually focus on illegal crossing of the Mexican border, but most of the SARS-CoV-2 would have come from legal flights from China, right?
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oh, I guess the parenthetical in your 8th Tweet makes this a little clearerhttps://twitter.com/CovfefeAnon/status/1238999443317362690 …
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