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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The optimistic framing is that those institutions can only fail until a sufficiently severe pandemic eliminates the ability of their supporting constituencies to continue funding their existence.
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Not to worry, after the punishment Big Pharma is gonna get, the rest should fall in line.
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More seriously, while tufekci has been right a couple times here, what she seems to be advocating for is that public policy should precisely track whatever the latest clinical results she's obsessed with are.
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SARS did that. We chose not to listen then though.
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Well maybe. I think if it had higher mortality it wouldn't have taken so long for places to take it seriously, which in a kind of twisted effect might have lead to fewer deaths overall.
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There’s an alternative hypothesis that COVID is at exactly the position where it is most dangerous. Obviously more-deadly or more-transmissible and it may have resulted in a different response. Neither hypothesis is disprovable. But the response was atrocious, either way.
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It's trivially disprovable just by flipping the age skew so it preferentially killed kids
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What, you were gonna say that Trump was *right*?
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