I've always been curious why this wasn't brought up more in the "it's just like the flu" conversation
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Did Matt ever acknowledge his was, in retrospect, somewhat of a bad take. Including in relation to your dialog? Not wear sackcloth and ashes or anything like that. Just acknowledge that “elite panic” turned out to be a really suboptimal, and possibly somewhat patronizing, lens?
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One of the reasons I got into pandemic writing in the first place was trying to explain some of this.
Especially at this stage: transmission and fatality are unclear. Flu isn’t going to kill hundreds of millions. I’m not saying this one will, but a novel coronavirus could. We just contained SARS.