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1/A trumpet from Heaven sounds, a beam of light shines down, and lo and behold, it's:

Coronavirus Tweets From the Experts, 5/16/2020

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2/Slavitt thread about reopening

3/"Flatten the curve" rhetoric was bad from the start

4/Doh

5/#TestAndTrace is what keeps Korea from having new waves of infections.

6/Countries that beat coronavirus (as the U.S. has so far failed to do)

7/@nextstrain is a really cool website.

8/Superspreaders!

9/I hope that testandtrace.com can help improve the public's understanding of what contact tracing involves, and help states improve their communication.

Right now, public understanding is not good.

10/Uhhhhhhh...did the Oxford vaccine actually work in monkeys?

11/Superspreaders seem to be really important for this disease.

12/Masks work.

12/This is one of those times I'm glad I moved from NYC to California! Especial shout-out to the Bay Area mayors.

13/It's possible a vaccine will take a long time.

14/What the HELL is going on at the FDA??

15/Remember that most vaccine and treatment candidates fail.

Luckily we have MANY.

16/Our current strategies for finding vaccines and treatments seem like good ones, given recent research on how people form immunity to coronavirus.

17/Wear a mask.

18/A thread of threads about regions that have gotten #TestAndTrace right, around the world.

19/Some research on the virology of the coronavirus.

20/YOU can help #TestAndTrace by keeping a journal of your close contacts!!

21/Which kind of antibodies offer immunity against coronavirus?

Some new research offers a clue.

21/The dangers of rushing a vaccine through trials

22/Sorry, HCQ fans. Bad news.

23/This thread will explain how SARS and COVID-19 are similar and how they're different.

24/Some technical notes on how to use antibody tests.

25/An analysis of global coronavirus transmission patterns

26/Loud voices in crowded indoor spaces spread coronavirus.

Avoid economics seminars!

27/Isolation of positive cases is crucial, which is why #TestAndTrace and #TestTraceIsolate are the same thing.

28/Kids may be more resistant to coronavirus in part because they get colds so often.

29/And that's all for today, good people! Come back tomorrow for another thread!

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1/Coming right at you, live from San Francisco, IT'S:

Coronavirus Tweets From the Experts, 5/18/2020

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2/Wachter thread!!

3/Slavitt thread!!

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My general thesis is that the U.S. is having a general crisis of status anxiety, and that trust-fund socialists are only one small manifestation of that crisis. No one knows whether they're succeeding or failing anymore, no one knows where they fit in or who fits in.
Some things that have contributed to the General Crisis of Status Anxiety:

1. Fractal inequality (millionaires feel poor compared to billionaires)

2. Social media (see: eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19…)

3. The decline of big hierarchical organizations

4. The decline of Christianity
What makes you a Winner in America today?

Making $100 million?

Having 80,000 Instagram followers?

Sleeping with 300 people?

Starting your own company? Getting promoted to upper management?

Getting 37,000 retweets on your epic dunk?

What should you even be striving for??
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Lots of tech people talk about disrupting college and replacing it with online education. But so far they only seem to think of college in terms of education. It's also:
* long-term networking
* group socialization and personal growth
* fun, partying, and sex
* independent living
If you're going to disrupt college with apps, you need to think about how to provide ALL of those things. Not necessarily in one app, but in a suite of them. Without the full package, apps will never replace the college model.
Also, every would-be college-disrupter that I've talked to seems to think ONLY about software skills (and maaaaybe electrical engineering) as important educational skills. That's only a modest piece of the skills universe, though, and it will remain thus.
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