The current level of public discourse, where it is taken as axiomatic that any country that has kept the body count low must have better policies in place than countries struggling with large outbreaks, is unsatisfying. A particularly egregious example:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/world/europe/coronavirus-europe-resilience.html …
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There’s a lot of hunger for “virus isn’t so dangerous, look at country X” takes over here in the US. Trust me. The problem is that those takes don’t result in good health science. They result in dudes with AK47s demanding to go out to bars.
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(And personally if there’s One Simple Trick that lets me go out to bars, I’ll be as thrilled as anyone else. I just don’t think Buzzfeed is going to crack this mystery for us.)
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I think you have a natural ally in
@JamesSurowiecki, who has been tweeting about these things as well.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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