well, here we are.

it took only 46 days to get from the numbers cited in this truly shitty tweet to where we are today: COVID-19 has now killed more than 45,000 Americans. https://twitter.com/gottapatchemall/status/1253834199796084736

i'm going to stop this thread now

as a closing thought, here's a white paper on how misinformation affected people's actions in the early days of the pandemic
https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/BFI_WP_202044.pdf