This is an insightful and afaik novel covid observation.
Your risk of getting covid is not determined by cases at the country level, nor even at the city level, but instead the cases prevailing in the subgroups you’re a member of.
many cases are tearing through your city. It matters how many are at your office, your kid’s school, or your place of worship.
And because most people don’t work two jobs, kids don’t attend two schools, and people don’t worship at two different churches, these groups
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are poorly connected, which can explain why you see these random waves in a city that aren’t explained by weather or behavioral changes. That wave was just everyone who partied, or all the Christians, or high schoolers.
Makes sense!
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bonus tweet: realized that @phl43's observation about covid and @DellAnnaLuca's observation about clusters apply as much to covid as they do to viral tweets. realized this when I noticed that this tweet is stuck in the wrong cluster :(
3. China didn't do as good of a job warning the world as they could have for the same reason why everyone locks down too late, it's hard to kill your own economy for something that might not happen. 4. The incentive to investigate is not there because US and China, two
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biggest economies and most powerful countries in the world internationally jointly fucked up, so people within government are worried about their own careers investigating because of blowback from other parts of gov't, even though its right thing to do.
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3 common sense apolitical changes America could make to increase happiness and efficiency not only in the US but globally:
1. Holidays
A. Move Thanksgiving to a Friday or make Black Friday a holiday. It's too disruptive to have Thanksgiving happen midweek.
B. For the same reason, make Christmas Day to New Years Day a week-long holiday.
C. Get rid of Columbus Day. Discovering America (the 2nd time) was badass but we have too many holidays in Q4 and we need to compensate for the holidays we're getting rid of.
D. Get rid of President's Day. Same thing.
E. Celebrate Halloween on the last Saturday in October so kids can trick-or-treat and do their homework.
F. Move MLK, Veteran's and July 4th (indepedence day) so they always fall on Mondays and so we have holidays throughout the year.