What people don& #39;t understand about #covid, in 4 tweets.

1) The virus will spread until it can& #39;t. Distancing we can do now, tests, contract tracing software, masks, vaccinations all come in time. But let it spread, and it will.

Treatment does not stop spread: different issue.
2) Best available data says 1.5% fatal, heavily weighted towards the old. R3+ means >50% infected in time. USA = 2.7 million dead.

Treatment gets the fatality rate down. Distancing, masks, vaccines get the infection rate down. Two different problems. Now let& #39;s talk about economy
3) The economy has been dead since 2008. Furthermore, it was incompatible with climate change, or basic "don& #39;t use slave labor" morality. And, like, 40m on food stamps.

All the resilience had been stripped out of the American economy since 2008. Oceans of debt and no healthcare.
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It& #39;s an endless litany. Endless endless endless. Root and branch.
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