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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Yeah that seems to be the time in which this kind of messaging really ramped up. I remember reading a popular reddit post from that time titled "From an Italian to the rest of the world: you have no idea about what's coming" which shared all the same ideas as Pueyo.
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Similar thing happened in late January with all these social media posts suddenly appearing from China showing almost apocalyptic scenes. Another of a wailing Chinese nurse claiming that China was hiding the true extent of the virus and warning of its catastrophic impact.
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all those went up on 23 January or a few days afterwards. 23 January was the exact day Hubei lockdown was announced. the pattern appears to be 1) you lock down, then 2) you get scary panic viral messaging
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