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>200 dead despite intensive care; at least an order of magnitude more deadly than the flu, highly mobile w/ no vaccine, just declared a global health emergency by the WHO, and WIRED's contribution is ...*drumroll*... border health checks are authoritarian wired.com/story/opinion-…
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Mason 🏃🏻✂️
@webdevMason
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tired: anxious antivax moms don't care about immunocompromised kids
wired: most of those deaths were people with shitty immune systems, just saying
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Kyle Bogosian (filling in for Clifford Banes) 💡
@KyleBogosian
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31. sij |
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"At worst it'll be like the 1918 influenza"
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Kyle Bogosian (filling in for Clifford Banes) 💡
@KyleBogosian
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31. sij |
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To be fair. He's talking about false popular perceptions of nCOV as an existential threat, not saying that the virus isn't a big deal.
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Ben
@bgrayseymour
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31. sij |
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If there was a planet of sociologists and they had a 50 year warning that an asteroid was headed for them I honestly wouldn’t put money on them summoning the will to survive. Plenty of thinkpieces on the cultural significance of annihilation would be published though
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Ben
@bgrayseymour
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31. sij |
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“Asteroids have a long and well established tradition of slamming into planetary bodies at great speed and force - who are we to interfere?”
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Josh
@JustJoshinYou13
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31. sij |
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Bahahahahahahahahahaha this is like a parody of how sociologists think
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Brian
@briantemerowski
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31. sij |
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Them: “We have no idea how bad this thing is”
Also them: “it’s not that bad tho chill”
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Jeff Lu
@JiffyLu
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31. sij |
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“Trust me. I’m a sociologist.”
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nelson horsley
@nJJJJRh
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31. sij |
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Can't believe educated people think like this.
Fully generalizable argument against stopping Bad Things.
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Assistant Regional Manager
@polite_netizen
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31. sij |
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It’s a hammer that you want to hit every nail with, and the more absurd the nail that you can convincingly hit, the more powerful all your previous hits become, retroactively.
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