It's a really fine line to both question the US's reaction to covid while at the same time remain grounded and not be labeled a conspiracy theory. Finest line I've ever walked. Going to continue walking cause what we have chosen to do is wrong and the blowback will be horrendous.
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Replying to @StewartalsopIII
Would you please describe what is wrong? What do you think of how Singapore, South Korea, et al, have addressed it?
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Replying to @jdeamattson
This might be a long response. Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, New Zealand, and Vietnam all reacted very quickly (this is key). They also quickly put the infrastructure in place to make testing and contact tracing available to help monitor community transmission.
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Replying to @StewartalsopIII @jdeamattson
*They also have more authoritarian governments (except NZ) so are able to copy China. The US did not have any of these things and decided to go with the stone age technology of staying the f apart and quarantining healthy people instead of sick people.
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Replying to @StewartalsopIII @jdeamattson
Everything I read before March of 2020 was saying well social distancing MIGHT slow down cases, but it is very unlikely to be an effective means to stop a highly infectious respiratory virus. And thus they said: "We are doing lockdowns just so we can flatten the curve"
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Replying to @StewartalsopIII @jdeamattson
Its just temporary. Just to make sure we don't fill ICU's. Well now ICU's in Los Angeles are only at 25% full and probably similar across the state but California is still in lockdown because of the gravest mistake of all of this, the full politicization of the virus.
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Replying to @StewartalsopIII @jdeamattson
Now people in the US mostly view the virus through a political lens and are not paying attention to what is actually happening. Here is an article on the perception of the lethality of the virus versus the actual lethality: https://www.franklintempleton.com/investor/article?contentPath=html/ftthinks/en-us-retail/cio-views/on-my-mind-they-blinded-us-from-science.html …
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Replying to @StewartalsopIII @jdeamattson
So there are two erros that the United States made: 1. Not acting very quickly and having infrastructure to do testing and tracing. 2. Making this mistake worse by not accepting #1 and pretending like we can stop an infectious respiratory virus through "no touching"pic.twitter.com/Ups3EohUV0
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Replying to @StewartalsopIII @jdeamattson
also, they didn't extend (or make universal) basic stimulus which forced a very large number of people to keep working; separately certain elements allowed misinformation to spread, or even encouraged it.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @jdeamattson
yes Germany did much better on this front.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @jdeamattson
This is really interesting. I just want to clarify that the Germans did better at the "lets go full on nanny state". I only think national quarantines of healthy people have a chance if the state goes full on nany state, no middle ground there either.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @StewartalsopIII
We have POFMA, but this is even better. But so much of this happens in private WhatsApp and WeChat groups...
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