Something about Corona always seems unreal to me. Like how the insanely autistic testing regime of South Korea made reinfection a thing (b/c they kept testing people on the way to recovery), & then the media pushed reinfection until they had willed the concept into reality...
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... Or how in the beginning whenever anybody started taking Corona super seriously and mass testing, they found a bunch of cases right away, and people started dying. No sooner do you start testing everyone in nursing homes, than everyone in nursing homes dies from Corona ...
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.. As if attention to infections in these populations willed infections into being. This happens everywhere, like a fractal, at every level of detail. Countries super terrified of Corona have awful outbreaks. Jurisdictions that opt out of containment have no problem at all...
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... Corona behaves like it does in France in French-speaking Switzerland, like it does in Germany in German-speaking Switzerland. Okay, the Swiss are hugely federal, the cantons have a lot of autonomy. Still, how is that managed, how is that an artefact of diagnostic machinery?
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Replying to @eugyppius1
I guess cowards don't live longer than brave people. Or, for those who prefer boring language: placebo is real. No use in treating it as a weird quirk. And why wouldn't it function on every level of society?
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placebo effect is also in many ways astonishing (though some of the things claimed for placebo are much exaggerated) otherwise, I reject antiseptic scientism and think being open to conspiracies or strange supernatural possibilities is an important aspect of being human.
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