One of the biggest misunderstanding about enduring authoritarian regimes is that the people in charge are uniformly stupid and crude, no smart/educated person advising them/is one of them. Obviously, this wouldn't work for long. But also: their regular people are regular people!
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@Jbloom_lab paper strongly suggests the Huanan seafood market wasn't the origin location. Brings me to something I wrote this week: the recent WHO report excluded cases earlier than seafood market outbreak in a way I can't make sense of. https://www.theinsight.org/p/bring-back-the-weekly-newspaper …pic.twitter.com/rQx4nAndKs
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Jan 2020 Lancet paper by Chinese scientists has three cases *earlier* than the market outbreak, says all confirmed by RT-PCR. A year later, WHO excludes three early December cases based clinical findings like "responded to antibiotics." What about those PCR confirmations?pic.twitter.com/SX436JPCNd
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Also, interesting week to have written this in my newsletter. The seafood market as an amplifying event (first big outbreak) with virus circulation earlier in Wuhan has always been possible from what data we did have (even with the Lancet/WHO confusion). https://www.theinsight.org/p/bring-back-the-weekly-newspaper …pic.twitter.com/XKQjlIKgVQ
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
And this is how it would unfold, next, in some parts of the world... (Sorry, sorry, gallows humor. Middle Eastern thing).https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1407535307755511808 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepReplying to @zeynep @Fullyfallible and 2 othersIf it were the Middle East, or Belarus, I guess, a slightly disheveled bat would soon appear on TV, with a *very* sincere confession—that it is in no way reading off the teleprompter. Just decided to come clean on that recombination, guilty conscience. Only wishes to apologize!5 replies 4 retweets 89 likesShow this thread -
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you know the joke about the CIA, FBI, and the KGB having a rabbit-hunting contest?
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We have the CIA, KGB and the Turkish police version of the same joke. What do your versions do? In ours, iirc, CIA has high-tech rabbit detector, Turkish police drags in beaten up squirrel, swearing it's a rabbit while ducking more blows. KGB rounds up all the animals?
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CIA spends six weeks in the forest establishing sources among the animals and concludes rabbits don't exist, the FBI surrounds the forest and accidentally burns it down, and the KGB bring out an injured bear going 'OK, OK, I'm a rabbit!'
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I *think* this is a Soviet joke before it's a Middle Eastern one, but I wouldn't swear to it.
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My favorite is the one that asks why do security agents follow people in threes? One to write down what the suspect does, one to read the report, and one to keep an eye on the two intellectuals here.
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Prisoner goes to the prison library, asks for book by a certain author. Prison librarian says, sorry, we don't have that book, but we have the author. (Guessing the potential list of countries is left as exercise for the reader).
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Heranimos Swingle, Padded Gambeson Man Retweeted Nicholas Grossman
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Nicholas Grossman @NGrossman81Soviet official: Why are we clapping for so long? Stalin’s speech was pretty good, but come on. Stalin: Soviet official: I work hard, my feet are tired. Another standing ovation is a bit much. Stalin: Soviet official: Why isn’t he saying anything? Soviet official 2: Good listener https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320 …0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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