eugyppius

Seems like Pueyo found a sweet-spot for a type of writing/messaging of a length and presentation that a) wasn’t too difficult or sophisticated (like a real journal article, but b) couched in language, framing, charts such that Smart People could feel Smart for understanding it

Combine that with its quasi-samizdat status (it was a Medium blog post, not a Lancet or Nature or even NYT article), which could make Smart People feel as though even knowing about it, circulated via their social media friends, put them in a special in-the-know club.

One can understand why Smart People found the whole package irresistible and ‘sticky’, to a degree that it actually blocks their brains from receiving or processing all other POVs or data about this thing. Like a parasite

This is all totally right.

listening to the Drosten interview again, he says „we only have the tools we had at the beginning of the pandemic“ and so we need to bring out the hammer again. lol maybe get Pueyo to write a few more Medium essays, then you‘ll have more tools.