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Health economics/policy. Public health warnings. Chair/Faculty @NECSI Fmr @Harvard. Short story—https://t.co/eNp7gjyhC0. Join me: https://t.co/20owTKSH4K

Jan 14, 2022, 22 tweets

Memesday! Time to discuss the power of memes. Share your favorite pandemic meme—🧵

📌They are (usually) funny
📌They make a point without saying it
📌They expose irony or hypocrisy
📌They say what many think but can’t aloud
📌All the above gets memes shared more than dry science

2) I could say a breakthrough case is not the same as a unvaccinated cases and explain hospitalization and death rates… or a meme makes almost the same point. 👇

3) I could talk about needing a vaccine passport for flying… or this meme dog could do it better…

4) this was not what I meant when I told y’all to swab your nose and your mouth…

5) this A FEW GOOD MEN meme is harsh reality of what people out there do…

6) everyone’s an armchair epidemiologist these days…

7) school reopenings for vulnerable families.

8) Not a pandemic meme, but a funny Jan 6th insurrection meme…

9) this one is kinda harsh. Some don’t like it’s so brutal. But T-cell expert @fitterhappierAJ assures it is accurate.

10) the CDC according to some meme lords out there after their no-testing-early-isolation-exit rule

11) Everyone has a chance to be booster for school reopenings… except the youngest kids under 12.

12) We don’t want to do COVID mitigation cuz it’s too hard they say…

13) but but but…

14) The @CDCDirector on her isolation exit policy…

15) I love this one… protect yourself to protect HCWs.

16) This #Omicron meme below was the most viral meme I’ve ever posted… 👇

17) The injustice of criminal prosecution of drug crimes…

18) someday when we look back…

19) what you see depends what your lens you use to see.

20) #omicron travel bans…

21) I love this one. not an meme, but an actual ad for polio vaccine decades ago.

22) A video is worth a 1000 science tweets sometimes. 👇

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