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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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Joined August 2009

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Sep 2020

      Containment was always the ONLY option It's an expensive strategy and a harsh one, sure, and unsexy, as opposed to humming supercomputers trying to synthesize a vaccine or some basement biochemist discovering a miracle cure through One Weird Trick But IT WORKS

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Sep 2020

      ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS FIND OUT WHERE THE VIRUS IS AND PUT A BIG WALL AROUND IT THAT WAS LOUIS PASTEUR'S GAME-CHANGING WORLD-BREAKING NEW IDEA FAR MORE THAN EVEN VACCINES, GERM THEORY SAVED MILLIONS THROUGH THE IDEA OF *HALTING VECTORS OF INFECTION*

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Sep 2020

      It seems hard but it's fucking simple Simple technology, simple deployment, simple logistical problem Test everyone as much as you can, lock down every place you can't test everyone, when your tests find the virus put the infected person in a box

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Sep 2020

      It doesn't take any special tricks or supercomputers or novel drug patents or anything It's easy, it's idiot-proof, anyone can do it You just have to ACTUALLY DO IT Don't tell me you can't do it, Taiwan DID do it

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Sep 2020

      Compare that to Bill Gates' "optimistic" projection that we'll have a vaccine and get the virus under control that way by the end of 2021 You hear that everyone? Q4 2021, everything will be okay, mark your calendars 12-15 more fucking months of this shit

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Sep 2020

      And he DOESN'T ACTUALLY KNOW You CAN'T know, that's not how the world works -- you don't know if a vaccine is even possible or not until you've actually made one And we know that coronaviruses as a family are notoriously difficult to attack directly

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Sep 2020

      They've never made a successful human coronavirus in the past -- SARS-1 has no vaccine, MERS has no vaccine Those epidemics just burned themselves out and they were like "Oh well"

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Sep 2020

      They shouldn't even have been talking about a vaccine It led us directly down this horrible garden path, along with the incredibly irresponsible hoaxmongering about hydroxychloroquine

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Sep 2020

      The idea of a "cure" or of "herd immunity" being like "Well if I really floor it, maybe I can drive all the way *through* the lake and out the other side" Maybe, or maybe your engine's electrical system will short out and you'll drown You don't even know how deep the lake is

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Sep 2020

      We had ONE KNOWN PATH, one surefire way to NOT be in the situation we were in now, one way to hit the brakes, jerk the steering wheel around and drive in another direction, and we fucking squandered it

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Sep 2020

      All the fucking assholes bleating about how expensive lockdown and containment was It's expensive and it's hard and it was THE ONLY POSSIBLE CHOICE

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        1. Ellie needs a nap badly  🏳️‍⚧️‏ @adorableIronPaw 3 Sep 2020
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          Don't neglect that even if would have been expensive, it still would have been less expensive than this shitshow is gonna be in the end. 😖

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        2. The Nerd Errant‏ @ErrantNerd 3 Sep 2020
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          But that would mean the rich and powerful would have to admit the poor need things legitimately, and that it has nothing to do with the notion of "poor=lazy" and "rich=hardworking". We can't have our cherished notions of class supremecy challenged, even at gunpoint!

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        3. heather‏ @aluminumcuffs 3 Sep 2020
          Replying to @ErrantNerd @arthur_affect

          This is exactly correct

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        1. Natsicle‏ @natterlyk 3 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          The pandemic was always going be expensive. Whichever way you did it. But hard lockdowns saves money in the long run. The US is spreading out the cost and making the wrong people pay for it

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        1.  ☂️Astramentha‏ @Mynta 3 Sep 2020
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          I will never shut up about reminding people that “herd immunity” as they’re using those words means nothing more than allowing millions of people to die as if we lived in a paleolithic world without medicine.

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        2. Aaron‏ @AaronMarx 3 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          Annnnnddd followed.

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        3. Deirdre B  🏳️‍🌈 🗽‏ @deirdre1122 3 Sep 2020
          Replying to @AaronMarx @arthur_affect

          Same! 🙋🏻‍♀️

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        2. M_Tex‏ @M23412963 3 Sep 2020
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          @threadreaderapp unroll

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        2. Seth Gordon‏ @ImagFamValues 3 Sep 2020
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          Anyone whining about how expensive lockdown is should compare Taiwan’s 2020Q2 economic statistics with America’s.

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