So many of the pieces to understanding covid were already in place by March of 2020. The key question of our time—will the people at WHO who flubbed this so badly be held accountable, or do we just keep them in place for the next pandemic?https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1391006873562849283 …
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Covid, for all its horrors, was a starter pandemic. We got lucky that it was an ambitious cold and not something deadlier. We got lucky that it spared kids and was controllable with masks. But it exposed institutional failures that we can't allow to persist into the next pandemic
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Michael Lewis’s new book gives a glimpse at how some people who demonstrate that it was impossible for the people in the field to have figured out relevant facts by mid February. Complacency is a killer.
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Advanced Gell-Mann Amnesia: when we continue to trust institutions even after they lie/are wrong about the things *they're* supposed to be experts in.
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