trump + covid-19 + unrest among the slacktivists and wonks + influencers unused to going more than a few hours without attention = pretty much an endlessly renewable source of hot takes. we've gone from coal-burning hot takes to nuclear fission.
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covid-19 will make people sick and kill people, but what it really does is generate takes. just slap "covid-19" into that lede and you're good to go. you can pretty much just find some top take person's take trove and re-write them all with "covid-19" added in
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doing tv summaries? covid-19 in every single one. reviewing movies? covid-19 better be in there. sports? yeah, i'm looking at you, covid-19. bonus points if we can get some trump in there. a trump take. mention disaster daddy cuomo. really stir that hot take tea
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parenting in the age of covid-19. dating in the age of covid-19. porn in the age of covid-19. life under quarantine in the age of covid-19. social anxiety in the age of covid-19. being metoo'd by dm slide during the age of covid-19. how social distancing is the new manspreading
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gaslighting in the age of covid-19 (can gaslighting cure covid-19?). misogynoir in the age of covid-19. is any personal essay written before covid-19 still the Essential Work? why covid-19 is distracting us from the Essential Work of tone policing the tweets
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Replying to @MoustacheClubUS
Takes for the high-minded: Towards a Phenomenology of Virality: Merleau-Ponty in the Age of CoVid-19. Interpreting a Quarantine: A Hermeneutics of CoVid-19
#PlagueMasks as TikTok Challenge: Foucault and the Panopticism of Social Distancing.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
you can throw those in either quillette or current affairs or n+1, take your pick , they're all the same really
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