Thread by @soychicka

So.

This is where we are.

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1238138388726890501

I don't want anyone to die.

But the earth is a living breathing organism, and ironically, viruses are like Earth's immune system.

We've reached the point where maladaptive behaviour is causing Earth to literally raise a fever, and this administration's response, oddly enough, is pushing its own supporters head first into the macrophages.

The 60+ set drove Trump to power, and they're the most susceptible.

I'm not laying down blame. Their understanding of the world, their biases - have been manipulated by aspirational politics that may have been plausible decades ago: but are no more.

Their cognitive biases - usually adaptive mechanisms to reduce stress in an uncertain world - have been weaponized, putting us all at risk.

The refusal of many to hand the keys to younger generations is putting us in a VERY precarious position:

When leaders, decision makers, those with the knowledge to keep the water running and the lights on are incapacitated, if they haven't passed the keys to their knowledge and a path to power on to their subordinates, decisions won't get made, lights go out, water stops flowing.

And then we're really fucked.

Sorry, I don't have any way to fix it.

I don't have any power to make gov't or critical infrastructure ensure there are lines of succession with multiple failover points.

I can't set up voluntary exposure centers for young people, who get crash courses in essential roles for keeping society alive while quarantined.

I don't have the answers.

I have ideas, grounded in a background in genomic science and anthropology that - if shaped in discourse with other SMEs - could fix a whole lot of things that are wrong.

Ideas that could keep people from dying.

Ideas that could make our nation more just, more equitable.

But some of those ideas have pissed off a lot of those who control the wealth and power in this nation, especially the superpredators at the top, so...

All I can do is share my ideas.

I know that, thanks to Trump's refusal to bring anyone into government who is not a sycophant, the chance of those ideas becoming reality on the national scale, where it's needed, is nil...

And all I can do is hope that someone in some state health department picks up something of use.

And a rando twitter account, I know the chance of that is pretty damn low.

But I have to try...
And hope that enough others out try too.

Though, of course, if anyone is hiring for the job of a societal UX mastermind, please feel free to get in touch.

And I'll keep going later, but now, it's time to vote.

For the guy who believes in science.

#invictaVeritas

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1238157645942534145?s=20