A story I would like to understand better is to what extent Japanese authorities have failed to fight the pandemic because of an idiosyncratic "chain of clusters" theory about how it spreads that discourages widespread testing.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Punting on the "authority" question for reasons that I think you can appreciate, I think "a plausible theory that turned out to be wrong" and "system which was incapable of providing evidence against the theory in a timely fashion" explains much more of last month than believed.
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Replying to @patio11
My landlord here is an epidemiologist and I have a plan that involves filling him with beer until he emits information, as soon as he stops being crazy busy
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You will probably do very, very well compared to a lot of organizations that, theoretically speaking, probably have "Does 3rd largest economy in world suffer a mass casualty event this year?" very definitely within the scope of their formal mission. (No sarcasm, at all.)
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