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An annoying tic of our pandemic discourse is people talking like it’s a thing just happening in the US. “The media overhyped it...because, Trump!” “The media came out hard against

I was under the impression part of my friends on the right firmly believed, “facts don’t care about your feelings.” Which is why the “but, the protests!” retort to covid

Good threat on the importance of caution & situational awareness in how we look at slowly coming out of stay-at-home orders. Not only is the epidemiological trend not as fast

This argument presumes the facts we knew in February/March were static. What would have happened if we had a decent testing regime in place early instead of the CDC/FDA bumbling

This is a story that shouldn’t be ignored, though it will be easy to do by some since we’re, for now, talking about largely urban centers where this issue is