avoid* direct international comparisons ... Other countries are only discussed a) if things seem bad there, and b) as harbingers of the future catastrophes that await us, if we don't behave and/or lock down more.
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German ICU hysteria never made sense. Other countries managed with higher rates of Corona & fewer per-capita beds. Germany was one of the least stressed. A trick of Corona reporting, is to direct international comparisons like this.https://twitter.com/eugyppius1/status/1402912959450554368 …
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This corrosive idea from March 2020, popularised by the world's foremost non-virologst Tomas Pueyo, is that we are all *at different points on the infection curve*. It is literally this bizarre: Some countries are taken to represent our future, others our past.
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This clever little mind virus makes the arguments around containment basically unfalsifiable. Because if you say "Florida is open, things are OK" the objection will be something like "That's only because they are behind us. They will get bad soon".
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In reality we are all in each other's present. Neighbouring countries have remarkably similar infection curves. No other policies are evaluated in this bizarre way.
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The ICU hysteria never made sense anywhere. In the US, we had hospital ships and makeshift emergency tents everywhere, and they were scarcely utilized. It was all about austerity: conditioning people to accept denials of care “for the sake of the system”, eg. the elites.
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