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Ok I’m normally a pretty calm guy, BUT I AM SO HAPPY AT THIS, IT IS AMAZING AND NOSTALGIC AND JOYOUS AND I AM ALL CHOKED UP AND WOW!!!

Thank you Joey, and thank you Master Chief!!!

More in the thread below, after I rewatch this a billion times!!!

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Thank you so much to @thejelindsay and @SteveDownes117, the voice behind the helmet.

He is donating his proceeds from this to charity (see Tweet below).

I’ve always loved video games. I used to write for a gaming magazine in college.

“Halo” was a favorite of mine. 2/
I loved “Halo” for many reasons, but its protagonist, the mysterious Master Chief, was instantly appealing.

Faceless beneath their helmets, yet strangely human, a Spartan-class super-soldier was actually at the heart of a thread I wrote.

“The Spartan and the Fallen.”

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Sayed A Tabatabai, MD
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It starts raining as I’m driving home from the hospital.

Normally the rain is background noise.

Today it’s different. The raindrops are splattering against the windshield with an urgency, an intensity.

As if they have something to say.

I listen. 1/
My mind focuses. The steady beat of the rain reminding me of something.

Raindrops. Tears.

I have thought and written about exponential growth, about the toll taken from caregivers, about parallels from history, about our need to connect.

Now I think about loss. 2/
We are in a period of time when numbers will become numbing in their recitation.

Perhaps they already are. Tens, hundreds, thousands, what does it even mean?

We can’t connect to numbers.

We connect to their stories.

The stories behind them. The stories they tell. 3/
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Sayed A Tabatabai, MD
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1992.
I’m on the swim team in my school. A swim meet is taking place.

Relays, 4x100m, and I’ve got the last leg.

Time seems to slow down. I’m coiled, ready to spring forward. Watching my teammate swim towards me.

Hand outstretched, he touches the edge.

I dive. 1/
When I was a child, a friend of mine drowned in a freak accident. One day she was there, and the next day she was gone.

I couldn’t talk about it. Not to anyone. To this day.

As I dive into the water and kick, I hold my breath.

I hold my breath for as long as I can. 2/
When you’re underwater, it’s serenely peaceful.

I know the crowd is cheering above me. I know my teammates are screaming encouragement.

But I can’t hear them.

Rays of sunlight filter down, and I keep kicking, still holding my breath.

Slowly I surface, lungs burning. 3/
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Sayed A Tabatabai, MD
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I know my niche here on Twitter is narrative threads, but I wanted to take a moment to discuss something that’s very difficult for us to truly grasp.

Something firefighters grasp intuitively, but many of us struggle with.

The idea of exponential growth. 1/
Let me start with a hypothetical question.

I’ll give you the answer later.

Monday: 541
Tuesday: 704
Wednesday: 938
Thursday: 1,195
3/27: 1,589+.

These are total US COVID-19 fatalities, growing by ~30% per day.

How many by the end of April, assuming the same % growth? 2/
We’ve all heard of the idea of exponential growth, even if it wasn’t called that.

Here in the US, a bear teaches us about exponential growth as kids in school.

His name is Smokey.

He teaches us that one small match can start a raging forest fire. 3/
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