Gonna start a #viruslog thread and limit my virus tweeting to it as much as possible. Looks like we're in this for the long haul. Recommend others do the same unless there's a good reason to tweet stand alone. It'll also be a good set of journals to review when it's all over.
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Humans evolved to take care of elderly for complex reasons and it shows up as instinct to look out for one’s own parents. The previous generation is your future. You’ll likely live longer than today’s 70+ crowd. What you do today for them is what will be done for you in 30 years.
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Trying to get ahead of the inevitable macabre/dank anti-boomer glee narrative. If I can think this thought others can likely go nuts with it.
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Thread on older contagion reads, movies etc https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1237559771655356416?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1237559771655356416 …
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‘The message from the federal government was blunt. “What they said on that phone call very clearly was cease and desist to Helen Chu,” Dr. Lindquist remembered. “Stop testing.”’ via
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To be clear this is one thing that can be directly blamed on Trump systematically dismantling/undermining the CDC’s mission for 2+ years. It’s not generic bureaucratic malaise and incompetence. For once Hanlon’s razor does not apply. This is active malice.
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On a more personal front, my office is now on WFH protocol. Kinda ironic that the one year in a decade that I have an actual office to go to, it gets shut down. I was kinda enjoying larping the paycheck life while it lasted.
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I only have a few terry pratchetts left to go, and am saving them up as emergency cheer rations for later. Quarantine escapism is going to be tough.
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Forecasting thread on before/after shifts.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1237807343972134912 …
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Thread on testing debaclehttps://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1237784291872030721 …
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In general, what makes this a narrative collapse is that it is the first true social media pandemic, where the possibility of conducting a global conversation in real time changes what it means to us. This pandemic will be live tweeted in exactly the way Spanish Flu was not.
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