I’m going back and forth about this @TheAtlantic piece
It is SO difficult to read
As @jabarocas wrote - it insults & dismisses so many sacrifices made
But it also represents a hard truth of how millions of Americans view & have dealt w COVID
1/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/where-i-live-no-one-cares-about-covid/620958/ …
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I've read the Atlantic "What Covid?" article twice. The first time I thought it was
@michaelmina_lab interesting as alternative world viewpoint. The second time I found it to be an impeccably impressively disturbing piece of dis/misinformation. -
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@jabarocas - The more I read it the more disturbed I am by it That said - I think it’s important to be uncomfortable reading the real views of ppl. I don’t know how to balance the fact that those real views are based on misinformation though - Show replies
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Akin to a vox pop where the microphone is simply pointing back at himself.
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What I'm missing here is context. Are the local case numbers or death rates low? Are they high and the author is just ignoring the morbid circumstances around them? The perspective of a health professional in that area would have been help to evaluate. https://www.mlive.com/coronavirus/data/ …
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I don’t know. I think it gives people a view into the views of a LOT of people, particularly many who remain unvaccinated. I do think it’s worthwhile to be exposed to it. People live in bubbles. In a way it’s interesting the Atlantic published this Bc it gives a window in
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This is the view of most of my vaxxed friends who are liberal. They were slow after getting vaxxed to return to normal but now they take few precautions for themselves
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He wasn’t just doing what
@zeynep says. He was using this as a place to push the NatCon campaign against “wokism” & liberal “elites”. It wasn’t reporting; it was propaganda. Belongs in The Federalist. Not the Atlantic.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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