I worry that social media has gotten some people addicted to the feeling of being involved in a crisis. To the extent that demand for crises exceeds supply, crises can be either manufactured or pulled out of the dark matter of unfortunate events happening in the world daily.
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alternatively a lot of people are vastly more precarious than you and/or have friends who are so stuff that doesn’t bother you at all is potentially emotionally, physically or financially devastating to us
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I’ve been preparing and advocating for a small village of people who get their news from TV and otherwise think this is no worse than the flu because although I’m not high risk, I know how to use twitter and have been following virologists for + months and know they are.
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Well you're about to find out. Allegedly the school janitor in Hillsboro is in critical condition.https://twitter.com/ericarothman/status/1233618078069485568?s=20 …
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Pandemics are different than other crisis situations in that you need people to take it seriously and change behavior but not panic. It’s a fine line to walk but “Carry on as before” is bad advice. It’s more akin to hurricane preparedness.
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What was the biggest problem in the world three months ago?
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Assassination of Sulieman and imminent war with Iran, if I'm counting right.
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There are a number of people who have gotten the
#COVID2019 spot-on, such as@biancoresearch ,@ErikSTownsend, (investment folks)@DrEricDing@HelenBranswell . No panic, but also early folks who said "this is NOT just the flu".Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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There’s always a ‘biggest problem in the world’, by definition. It just happens to be 100-year-outbreak this time, on top of the incompetent and corrupt government before that, and the illegitimate election before that.
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