Do people know that the 1890 pandemic was likely caused by another coronavirus, OC43 (that was then novel?) Nowadays, no longer novel, it is one of the causes of the common cold. We're obviously not living in the OC43 pandemic since, and we won't live in a COVID pandemic forever.
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Replying to @zeynep
cbergenholtz Retweeted Anthony J Leonardi, PhD, MS
But is it not a worry, still, that Cov19 is genetically different compared to former Corona viruses?https://twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1441042305457303552 …
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Anthony J Leonardi, PhD, MS @fitterhappierAJThe virus won't be benign The trajectory has been more immune-evasive (chronic), with retention of the superantigen, fcs, and refinement of fcs advantageousness As I have said long ago Rather, it will exert selection pressure on people. We're not the humans adapted to cov2 https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1441033557284057091 …4 replies 2 retweets 32 likes -
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Absolutely. One of the worst.
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Replying to @andrew_croxford @ChiefStevieP and
Agreed. 99% of the time I have no idea what he is talking about, just a compilation of scary, novel & scientific words with no actual meaning & zero scientific sense. Interestingly, people rt things they don’t fully understand.
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Replying to @mugecevik @andrew_croxford and
Yeah, people see a credential and some jargon and assume it's scientific. But the bigger picture: how is a regular person supposed to tell the crankery from the real thing? Just check the credentials doesn't work. (For everything claimed, there is a person with the right degree).
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Replying to @zeynep @mugecevik and
Honestly it’s hard enough when plenty of *credible* experts disagree on things (see: your thread on OC43 yesterday)
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Replying to @WilliamBHoenig @mugecevik and
But that's perfectly fine. It was a valid, interesting and actually productive set of disagreements about an open question. (Though haha someone reported it to Twitter's misinformation system as if the exact pathogen for 1890 is a misinfo problem—folks have time on their hands).
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And I think that's exactly the problem: it's hard to tell regular disagreement, interpretation, open questions etc. from the crankery especially when there are a non-zero number of MDs or PhDs with the wildest claims (vaccines are causing case spikes, modifying DNA etc.)
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