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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 24 Jun 2020

    The biggest surprise of this pandemic, within the US, is the amount of arguing, both about the pandemic itself and about other topics. If I'd tried to imagine a pandemic beforehand, I'd have imagined everyone becoming really serious and focused. Maybe in Switzerland...

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      1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 24 Jun 2020

        Historians are going to have a hard time describing this period accurately, because randomness does not compress well.

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      1. Jamo ⚡ 🐂 (Bitcoin DM always open!)‏ @jamo2221 24 Jun 2020
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        Coming from outside the US, I do not find this surprising at all.

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      1. grey matter‏ @greymillenial 24 Jun 2020
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        this is america 2020pic.twitter.com/d6H0eaDhht

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      1. Alex Kaufman‏ @akkaufman 24 Jun 2020
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        Wishful thinking always wants to argue with unequivocally bad news it seems.

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      1. Jonathan Carson  🚢‏ @jonathancarson_ 24 Jun 2020
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        You mean like New Zealand's "Team of 5 Million" approach?

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      1. Ankkit Nahar‏ @NaharAnkkit 24 Jun 2020
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        Politicisation of the pandemic has had perlocutionary perils!

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      1. Ryan Finlay‏ @ryanfinlay 24 Jun 2020
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        And how politicized it became and remains. I figured people would come together and lay differences aside.

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      2. Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer 24 Jun 2020
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        Has anybody yet calculated the average number of Quality-Adusted Life Years lost per coronavirus death? That strikes me as a very important number for putting the death toll in perspective, but nobody else seems interested in finding it out.

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      1. depo‏ @deporojue 24 Jun 2020
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        In a highly fractured society, people have become more serious and focused in their respective fractured corners, driven deeper into their orthodoxies. It's unfortunate.

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