The virus is the first interesting post-historical supervillain
If we can beat it, history will restart
If not it’s end-of-history reruns for the rest of time
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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.
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.
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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They’ve already failed. It’s already killed 0.75m, it will go endemic and even a vaccine will at best control it a bit.
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😈 would say "my" Dunbar tribe is all alive and healthy, so there's still time for _____ to save the day"
They failed by not properly trying
Too obsessed with biotech to consider air filtration and better masks and other approaches to control the spread
SAD!


