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It’s kinda funny how people are attacking it with all the traditional virtues that worked against human adversaries in the past: strength, honor, intelligence, compassion, imagination... each defined a century or three of history. None really works as the locus of response.
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What kinda works is a bizarre kind of arbitrariness (distancing and masking) that requires adopting a kind of dumb-somatic identity that feels insulting. You’re a sneezing-coughing machine capable of projecting droplets a certain distance. That’s all the virus *can* see you as.
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It’s insulting in the same way being used as a doorstop is insulting to a book. 99.99% of your identity is irrelevant to this battle.
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It’s not just Trump who can’t bully it... The wokies can’t cancel it The nerds can’t science the shit out of it The entrepreneurs can’t disrupt it Davos crowd can’t PowerPoint it The military can’t nuke it QAnon cannot red string it Jihadis can’t suicide bomb it
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well we eventually got herd immunity to the Black Death. it's just that we didn't get it via antibodies, we got it via genetic immunity and evolution, as it killed people of before they could have children, over the course of 100 years or so.
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