People are writing stories about why Brazil is facing a rapid rise in coronavirus cases, but I want to read the stories about why Egypt, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nigeria and Pakistan are not. And they really aren't, and it is beyond time for people to get curious about why not.
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In the 1918 flu pandemic, mortality rates were something like 10x higher in the poorest countries. The universal belief in February 2020 was that the developing world would be hit hardest by this pandemic. What did we get wrong, and how can we capitalize on it?
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There is a tension between saying we must lock down the US until a vaccine is ready, and the empirical fact that most of the world is not having a great deal of trouble keeping this epidemic contained. The circular explanation that they all have better policy doesn't hold up.
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You can claim that everybody is lying and undercounting, and the whole world looks like Lombardy and London, but if that's true, where are the bodies? This should be the #1 mystery about coronavirus we attempt to solve, because it might offer a quicker way out of the crisis.
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On a domestic U.S. note, this raises an urgent question—what if we really can lift restrictions across most of the country safely? Republicans who say this are being vilified, but honesty compels us to say they have strong evidence on their side. People need to get more curious
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Again, it's really hurting us to have most of the American media be highly neurotic residents of the cities hit hardest by this disease
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uhh what exactly are you trying to say about the “highly neurotic” media from New York now?
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yeah it sounds like you’re saying that there are too many Jews in American media and I might rethink saying that if I were you but you do you man
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I completely fail to understand how you hear that as a dog whistle. I'm talking about US reporters based in the NYC/DC conurbation, who tend to be pretty high-strung and anxious, overeducated people stuck in small apartments for many weeks now.
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Replying to @Pinboard
I’m telling you what it sounds like to me, as a Jew. Do what you want with that info. If it wasn’t intentional, that’s great. But to my ears it sounded like a very ugly and familiar trope, and I was surprised and concerned.
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What is a way I could say "people with high levels of anxiety" that wouldn't read as code for something I don't intend?
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