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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eugyppius Retweeted Jason Van Schoor
that Reddit post almost surely from this Twitter thread ...https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/1237142891077697538 …
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Jason Van Schoor @jasonvanschoorFrom a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy: 1/ ‘I feel the pressure to give you a quick personal update about what is happening in Italy, and also give some quick direct advice about what you should do.Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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Odd how after this guy's account dies after 10th March 2020. Seems to be another trend with these people. Appear, promote lockdown, then fade into obscurity.
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it went up within 12-14 hours of the other translated thread. you could be forgiven for positing it‘s a dramatisation of the translated thread, directed specifically to British (rather than Italian) readers. it was picked up by British tabloids in a few days.
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