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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Oct 2021

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Alec MacGillis

    Very smart, nuanced and convincing piece about how polarization is messing USA's covid response (with Germany as counterexample). One question I have is role of federalism.https://twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/status/1448012571110514693 …

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    Alec MacGillisVerified account @AlecMacGillis
    What it's like to live in a place with Covid politics far less polarized than in the US. My dispatch from Germany: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/12/opinion/covid-germany-masks-vaccines.html …
    12:08 PM - 13 Oct 2021
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    • Lisa Borel Chris Garlock 😷🌻 Just wear a mask 🌻😷 "Remember to Love Each Other" Cooney Nate Monroe Persephone Wired DJ🧃 Evan Chris DiLapi (Big Twelve Conference Supporter)
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      1. Stephen Boisvert‏ @srboisvert 13 Oct 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        My theory is that covid-19 responses are problematic if you speak English in the northern hemisphere without ending sentences in covid particle clearing 'eh'

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      1. Funky Bi Guy‏ @angryblackbiguy 13 Oct 2021
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        Germany has a miniscule population of Africans (although the majority of those are Sub-Saharan). You cannot discuss any policy in the US without addressing the racism that permeates everything.

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      2. Sherparick‏ @sherpaCato 13 Oct 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Actually, Germany is a Federal Republic with most local Government, including health, run by the 16 various states & city-state Governments. But they don't have Fox News, British Tabloids, Talk Radio, nor large minority groups (post-WW2 Borders & associated unpleasantness).

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      3. Sherparick‏ @sherpaCato 13 Oct 2021
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        I would add that about 13% of the population are now descended from immigrants that came in the following waves: 1) Turks, Italians, & Greeks who came in late 50s, 60s, & 70s; 2) Eastern Europeans descended from with German ancestry 1990s; & 3) Syrians, Iraqis, & Afghans recently

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      2. Alec MacGillis‏Verified account @AlecMacGillis 13 Oct 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Not sure which direction your question points, but just fwiw, Germany's Covid policies differ by state to a greater degree than most European countries but to a lesser degree than in US. There is also no variation here at local level, within states, like you find in much of US.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Oct 2021
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        Yeah, I was wondering if there regional variations and local governments with different messages (which is problem in USA and, to lesser degree, Canada).

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      1. Max Berger‏Verified account @maxberger 13 Oct 2021
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        Duverger’s Law doing a lot here too

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      1. Alan (316ppm+) Schtweetz‏ @AlanSchtweetz 13 Oct 2021
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        For a second I misread that as “feudalism”, and now I can’t stop thinking it might be equally valid.pic.twitter.com/2zIx8kTj7x

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      1. Justine Barron‏ @jewstein3000 14 Oct 2021
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        He compared schools being closed (pre vaccines existing) to the Iraq War and South African apartheid

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