I don't think the deranged, hyperbolic stories about India have any direct, immediate political purpose. It's all about maintaining this constant, grating tone of catastrophe in the headlines every day. It is imported panic, now that we have exhausted our national stores.
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and don’t forget ‘variants’. you can always find one country or another with a new variant and a B.xx.yy.zz code for people to fear
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precisely. the variants work like this: say the Eswatini Variant is raging in Eswatini, but somebody also found two people have it in Düsseldorf, suddenly all the Eswatini headlines are directly relevant for all of Germany as they portend our immediate future.
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Rollout test stations around the city helps too...
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the bits and pieces of data i’ve seen for these suggest they find almost no positives, i mean fewer than even i would’ve expected. and a huge part of the pos results end up negative on PCR.
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