29. An aside: I realize that John Ioannides is trying to be clever and contrarian and has a hammer and damned if this pandemic doesn't look like a nail, but his latest STAT piece is just chumming the swimming beach for this particular kind of shark.
30. [Deep breath]
It looks like this piece has now been taken down by Medium. I'm going to stop now, even though I'm only about half way thought. If it comes back to haunt us, I'll continue the thread.
Thanks for reading, and stay safe out there.
It looks like this piece has now been taken down by Medium. I'm going to stop now, even though I'm only about half way thought. If it comes back to haunt us, I'll continue the thread.
Thanks for reading, and stay safe out there.
31. So the piece has moved on to another right wing conspiracy-sphere website recently banned from Twitter for unfounded personal attacks on a scientist.
Should I continue to go through the article, or get back to my positive efforts (modeling, sci comm) around the crisis?
Should I continue to go through the article, or get back to my positive efforts (modeling, sci comm) around the crisis?
32. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to vote on the poll. I've been working on other disease modeling efforts this evening, and my twitter feed has been swamped by newly-formed troll accounts. I'll return to this tomorrow if necessary. Take care everyone!