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    1. Micah Sifry‏ @Mlsif 18 Apr 2020

      A short thread on what it feels like to be in NY right now: Yesterday is when I understood what our friends in Italy were trying to tell us a few ago, about the intensity of so much loss in such a short time. (1/n)

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    2. Micah Sifry‏ @Mlsif 18 Apr 2020

      In the last six days, six people I am close to have lost someone to COVID-19. A dear friend lost both his aged parents 3 days apart. A young colleague lost her mother. Another lost her father-in-law. A cousin told of his two best friends each losing their mothers. (2/n)

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    3. Micah Sifry‏ @Mlsif 18 Apr 2020

      I have participated in my first virtual funeral and first virtual shiva, and have another one tonight. (3/n)

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    4. Micah Sifry‏ @Mlsif 18 Apr 2020

      Consider this: In the NYC metro area, we have roughly 15,000 dead from COVID-19 out of about 15 million people. who live here. That is just 0.1 percent. And yet it feels like the Angel of Death is stalking our streets. (4/n)

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    5. Micah Sifry‏ @Mlsif 18 Apr 2020

      When I hear people elsewhere in the US talking about a death rate of 1 or 2 percent being an acceptable cost, because we can't bear the economic pain, I want to shake them by the throat. Losing just a tenth or twentieth of that level is already a horror. (5/n)

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    6. Micah Sifry‏ @Mlsif 18 Apr 2020

      But I know facts don't change people's minds. Hearing that this was a pandemic that spread exponentially didn't change enough minds soon enough. So here we are. (6/n)

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    7. Micah Sifry‏ @Mlsif 18 Apr 2020

      Like those good people in Italy who tried to warn us a few weeks ago, all I can say to the rest of America is, try to hold firm on the #lockdown. And where that's not happening because of how we are ruled by fools, get ready. (7/end)

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Apr 2020
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      I’m so sorry! 😢

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