I've spent HOURS trying to talk friends and families down from worrying about the variants and speculating on future doomsday pandemic scenarios. They're coming from a good place (precaution) but the press has been absolutely terrible at fanning those flames into paranoia.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1379429990278688771 …
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Impossible to really know and yes, those are all part of the mix. But I do think the aggressively toxic news cycle of the previous administration has lead to a kind of codependency that will be hard to ween off of
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We've been discussing this as well. The focus on the next "wave" seems to obscure the threat of a long-smoldering plateau that may be equally costly. But waves play better.
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