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science journalist. molecular biologist. curious. contributing correspondent at @sciencemagazine part of @pandemiapodcast, all things #blue

Berlin, Germany
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    Kai Kupferschmidt‏Verified account @kakape Mar 24

    I keep hearing that loosening restrictions earlier this month in Germany was necessary because of “pandemic fatigue”. I don’t think that is true. And if loosening restrictions was supposed to make things better, it didn’t. It made them worse. So a brief thread about fatigue

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      2. Kai Kupferschmidt‏Verified account @kakape Mar 24

        Yes, I am fatigued. So are the people around me. Fatigue means you are doing something that is hard. And what we have all been doing is hard. But that I am fatigued does not mean that I want the government to give up fighting this pandemic. Quite the opposite.

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      3. Kai Kupferschmidt‏Verified account @kakape Mar 24

        I want the government to acknowledge that this is hard. I want them to motivate me by giving the reasons that we need to keep doing this. I want them to make it easier for me to keep doing this. 
And I want them to do what they can to make sure this ends as soon as possible.

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      4. Kai Kupferschmidt‏Verified account @kakape Mar 24

        Simply loosening restrictions when it’s too early is not helping. I get nothing from someone telling me halfway through a marathon that I already passed the finishing line and then telling me later that actually I do have to run the rest of the marathon...

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      5. Kai Kupferschmidt‏Verified account @kakape Mar 24

        The danger here is that people and communities feel left alone in their efforts instead of supported. At the same time trust in the government’s handling of the pandemic plummets, further eroding their ability to do the things that matter, like getting people vaccinated.pic.twitter.com/vb1t3Enx7D

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      6. Kai Kupferschmidt‏Verified account @kakape Mar 24

        When this happens, pandemic fatigue can easily turn into pandemic fatalism. And that’s what I am really worried about...

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      1. Nicola Fankhauser‏ @8eau Mar 24
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        The fatigue has already kicked in… Is the thread already finished?

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      1. Layman‏ @BesamePoco Mar 24
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        To put it in 2 words: Total failure!

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      2. ThinkingAboutThinking‏ @ThinkingAboutV Mar 24
        Replying to @kakape

        Kai, Isn’t hospitalization the key statistic that matters ? Do we have any stats on who is getting hospitalized and how they are ? Why does no one talk about it ? Is it because politicians skew older and restrictions in those age groups are a no-go ?

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      3. ThinkingAboutThinking‏ @ThinkingAboutV Mar 24
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        Frankly, if people are so fatigued that they don’t care about their own elderly parents dying, We might have bigger problems than Covid. But if they don’t think not following rules is not as fatal perhaps they are telling us something - the arbitrary rules don’t seem to work ...

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      2. Griz, Podbusker‏ @Grizzlysgrowls Mar 24
        Replying to @kakape

        I look to my Dad in WW II. Fatigued? Oh, yeah, probably in Africa. And then there was Sicily, and Italy. Dad was in Italy while ships were landing in France. And he was still around in Germany guarding what needed guarding while others went home, fatigued but still there.

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      3. Griz, Podbusker‏ @Grizzlysgrowls Mar 24
        Replying to @Grizzlysgrowls @kakape

        We are here doing this because that's what we do to live. Tiring, fatiguing, exhausting? Absolutely. It's not a sprint. Survival is a ways off yet. That's where we're headed. Don't fuck it up, we'll do our part. If we do, and you -do- fuck it up? We're comin' for ya.

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