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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Nov 2020

      Thoughts on the American election: - it is a shame the meteor didn't run again - too many states start with M, not enough with E or Y, this strikes me as unfair - red and blue remain boring colours, why not try a nice fuschia?

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Nov 2020

      - if you were to combine the Midwest into one state you could call it Megahio. This is very ridiculous, but quite a good name

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Nov 2020

      - New York is similarly a silly name. Presumably it came into being at roughly the same time as Old York when the Earth's crust was formed, and so it should be renamed Also York - counting votes is meant to take time, unless we reimagine time as non-linear

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Nov 2020

      - if we imagine time as non-linear, then Biden and Trump have both won and lost and should accept their defeat/victory with magnanimity/anger - Massachusetts is a challenging word to spell correctly

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Nov 2020

      - if the American election was held in Australia, a huge number of people would simply be arrested for trying to unfairly influence the result - this is a strong reason to hold the US election in Sydney, which would be very democratic but challenging logistically

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Nov 2020

      - I now know the names of more American states than Australian ones, which is somewhat disconcerting - this is perhaps an unsurprising fact, given that there are only 6 Australian states, but I am nevertheless disappointed in myself somehow

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Nov 2020

      - people keep complaining about the electoral college being confusing and antiquated, which is odd because that's true of the whole election really - as one of the pivotal states still counting, it is annoying that Pennsylvania has so many syllables in its name

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Nov 2020

      - American state lines are all drawn badly, except for Wyoming and Colorado, which are pleasingly regular and thus the Best States - there are either too many or too few counties in Georgia, depending on how you feel about pointless redundancy

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Nov 2020

          - people seem overly fond of chanting, given that votes are in fact on paper and thus cannot be changed by words alone - unless the chanting is some kind of wizardy, in which case there are more wizards in Arizona/Pennsylvania than I was expecting

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Nov 2020

          - too many people are saying the words "Joe Biden is on top" which raises disturbing imagery of a Trump/Biden embrace - this is, thankfully, better than saying "Trump is on the bottom" which is far more evocative a phrase

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Nov 2020

          - American accents elide the words "polls" and "Poles", giving the confusing impression that Polish people are pivotal to the election in some way - clearly the solution to this is to hire more Australians to comment on the US election

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        5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Nov 2020

          - there is no particular magic in "calling" a vote, unless you are an electoral official - thus, I would like to call the presidential election in my favour, despite not running, and being Australian, because the gig pays somewhat better than an epidemiologists salary

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        2. Dr. Phil‏ @Duke_of_neural 4 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Here are Iowa county lines. Look upon them and despair.pic.twitter.com/eGaZEXnlf1

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 4 Nov 2020
          Replying to @Duke_of_neural

          That is extremely unsettling

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        1. James Ashburner‏ @EurekaJames 4 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          One must raise again the scandalous malapportionment that leaves Aussie Rules loyalists stranded in southern “New South Wales”.

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        1. moose‏ @mizmoose 4 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Michigan is shaped like a mitten, with an extra chunk on top. People in the "lower" part of the state tell you where they live by pointing to the right spot on their upheld hand. People in the "upper peninsula" are called Yoopers [UPers] and are actually from another planet.

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        1. Don Woodman‏ @DJWPLV 4 Nov 2020
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          Don't leave out Kansas

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