eugyppius

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 …

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.

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.

anywhere worse than your country is shown as a possible future and anywhere better is portrayed as the past/where you would be if you'd given more power to epidemiologists

yes exactly.

it's all so tiresome