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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 22
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    Kinda fascinating that a virus is the biggest story in 2020for me personally, way ahead of Sanders vs Democratic Party or SpaceX or forest fires or anything else. Something is different about this bug compared to last few, and it isn’t just the online memetic immune response.

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 22
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        I think it’s a live referendum on the importance of institutional and expert responses in an age that has convinced itself both are irrelevant and have lost all trust and credibility.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 22
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        People I thought were radical BTFSTTG types are suddenly turning into CDC stans and believers in epidemiology credentials. Nobody is suggesting popular referendums like Brexit to shape responses. There’s a limit to faith in crowds/distrust of authorities after all.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 22
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        The thing is, even if the institutions and experts are responding poorly, there’s no “populist” alternative on the table. Almost anyone can be President it seems, but very few can do things like analyze viruses or synthesize vaccines.

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 22
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        Populist options will be limited to cures worse than disease in the short term. In the long-term biohackers might generate local responses from hacker spaces with crispr or whatever. Right now, the vilified experts are the only available line of defense

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      6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 22
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        Most of you, I’ll bet if you get the symptoms you’ll go see a doctor and accept their protocol. You won’t be calling your friendly neighborhood anti-authority conspiracy theorist for advice.

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      2. Usman Shabbir‏ @usshabb Feb 22
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        Yea what’s different to me is: 1. High transfer rate 2. High death rate 3. Elusive source 4. Sheer helplessness. I view this single most important threat to humanity right now. Knowing China is best suited to deal with crisis due to power concentration at center, and still hard.

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      3. Usman Shabbir‏ @usshabb Feb 22
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        Growing up Pak, I know how inept such countries would be in face of this crisis. When you hear 220+ people across on cruise got infected, and head of hospital at Wuhang got infected and died, and u know how network effects scale, its very scary.

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      2. :D‏ @banjerina Feb 23
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        They found a guy late last week that developed symptoms after 27 days - long after the 14 day quarantine. I think it's the prospect of so many ppl getting sick *at the same time* that is the issue rather than the virus itself, which is not really much worse than the flu.

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        Accepting that no vaccine will be available anytime soon and projecting the extreme impact on health care and knowing the treatment should give us a lot to work on. 120mg vitamine-c daily and maybe learning how to self inject?!http://orthomolecular.activehosted.com/index.php?action=social&chash=42a0e188f5033bc65bf8d78622277c4e.140&s=014f5387b1617118bfff9f0290d29008 …

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