My colleagues have a message for those of you out there who deny that #COVID19 is real, who claim that it's not deadly, that it's not killing thousands. You are making their already incredibly difficult job so much harder. You know who you are.https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2020/11/21/michigan-hospitals-covid-19-pandemic/6374114002/ …
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There. I deleted the original and Tweeted it again after fixing it, all because an annoying pedant fixated on the inadvertent double negative, even though the meaning was still obvious and this is Twitter, after all.
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Replying to @gorskon
I like almost everything about you and your work, with the one exception of your ungraciousness when corrected.
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Correcting typos and Twitter flubs (and adding nothing more) without saying something substantive about the content is basically the pedant looking for an excuse to put someone down and/or feel superior. That is very different from a disagreement or correcting substance.
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Basically, it was the equivalent of a spelling or typo flame.
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