Pandemics are not ergodic. The chances of 100 people catching covid-19 today are not the same as the chances of 1 of those 100 catching it in the next 100 days.
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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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