1. Drosten demands „the hammer“ against Corona, referring to the March 2020 Medium essay „The Hammer & the Dance“ by Bay-Area entrepreneur & thinkfluencer Thomas Pueyo. Pueyo‘s mysteriously viral essays inspire policy in multiple countries. Why?https://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article229463153/Lockdown-Verschaerfung-Drosten-meint-bleibt-nur-noch-der-Holzhammer.html …
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Replying to @eugyppius1
In hindsight this seems very odd. A random guy appears out of nowhere as some data-driven covid expert and suddenly goes viral. At the same time a bunch of social media posts also from random people go viral, all sharing the exact same evocative messaging. Seems manufactured.
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Perhaps he is just a smart guy who is very good at getting getting his name out there are promoting his work but it seems too coordinated. Especially given the bizarre amount of influence his writing seems to have had on covid policy.
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his first viral Medium post, „Why you must act now“ went up within like 2 days of the first lockdown in Italy.
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his central thesis in that post, that the virus will act the same everywhere, & places with worse outbreaks are merely further along than places with not-so-bad outbreaks, is designed to get everyone to lock down just like Italy & remains central assumption of team containment
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