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Jan 31 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
A thread responding to this crazy thread.

Humans have lived with viruses for millennia. Sometimes they die from these viruses, whether they're HCoV-OC43, rhinovirus or SARS-2. All humans die; the weakest & sickest can be pushed over the edge by very small things.
Small things like Omicron, or heat waves, or extended loneliness and lack of stimulation. These are the only the final causes, in a long chain of causation. If you solve these problems, others will emerge to take their places.
We don't have any control of SARS-2. If your country doesn't have enough healthcare capacity to handle sick people, that is indeed a policy failure, but the solution isn't "restrictions." The solution is building more capacity, and starting yesterday.
The notion, that we should restructure society to keep healthcare institutions at capacity, is totally insane. It is like saying we should respond to rush-hour congestion by increasing unemployment.

AiR FilTeRS & MoAR VenTIlaTiON won't eradicate Corona. They're just a cool trick that hasn't had the chance to fail yet. But even if it worked, it would be inadvisable. Humans need to develop natural immunity to airborne viral pathogens.

To build magic air filters that kill viruses is to cultivate an immunological naiveté worthy of pre-contact Native Americans, which means every time you venture outside your little virus-free bubble you end up in the hospital on oxygen somewhere. This is a very dumb plan.
Germany has had blanket public transit mask mandates for over a year. Places like Bavaria have mandated FFP2 (=N95) masks in public transit for most of 2021. It does exactly zero to stop transmission, honestly zero.

We in the Eurozone have been rapid testing our asses off since Spring 2021. It does zero to stop Corona, literally zero. I've never seen anyone even claim it's effective, it's become but a means of harassing the unvaccinated and/or the unboosted.

If testing is so effective, why didn't it stop the Fall 2021 wave in those European countries with robust antigen testing programs? Seriously, rapid testing is the new contact tracing. This thing that will theoretically stop Corona but that never works
All this time and the hystericists are still struggling to understand aerosolised transmission. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU'RE DANCING WITH FRIENDS OR SITTING IN GROUPS. Corona pervades the air like a gas, OK?

People who don't understand coronavirus seasonality think it is the Christmas holidays driving up case rates. This is not true, otherwise you wouldn't see equivalent case spikes in the austral summer. Corona spreads best in dark, cold months.

HCoV-OC43, like SARS-2, is betacoronavirus, which very likely caused a massive pandemic starting in 1889, and then became ... a cold. The same thing will happen with SARS-2 – is in fact happening at this moment – and people like this need to calm down.

austral winter*. oh well.

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Jan 13
“Eugyppius, what do you think about running shoes?” asked nobody ever. “What advice do you have about running shoes? What shoes do you like to wear?” asked still fewer people. Hence the need for this thread.
First, I think discussion around running shoes is too belaboured. They’re the closest thing the sport has to an equipment requirement (inb4 the barefoot runners: yes I know), so they’ve become a focal point of marketing & running culture, somewhat stupidly.
This means, second, that you probably want shoes that are claiming to do, and actually doing, as little as possible. You want the minimum necessary protection against sharp objects on the ground, and the minimum cushioning to get you through the distance you’re running.
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Jan 12
If any government truly cared about reducing the impact of infections, even from mild Omicron, they would stop the masking, the increasingly crazy manic vaccinations, the testing, everything. There would be a low-key public information campaign about what is going to happen:
Millions and millions of people are going to get sick all at once, and all that crazy panic messaging of the past few years must be undone, insofar as that's possible, to prevent greater disruptions than are necessary.
People should be reassured that they'll almost certainly suffer only a mild illness, and that taking excessive steps to quarantine or isolate will cause more problems than it solves. Major media should list typical symptoms and tell people not to worry about it.
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Jan 10
1) correct German spelling is Massenbildung, so many typos on this account

2) a point I forgot to mention: humans are hive creatures, like termites; it hurts to hear after so many years of liberal indoctrination, but we don’t really exist as individuals …
… at least not as we prefer to imagine it. I am hostile to conceptions that pathologise collective human social behaviour. That said:

Much blood & treasure has been spent, to isolate us & beat us back to naked individualism. And that makes us vulnerable to all kinds of crazy …
If ‘crowd formation’ as a theory is tenable, it is to this extent: That humans when vulnerable, isolated & under threat are likely to join any movement, just to be part of something, just as in an overwhelmingly secular society, they fall prey to all manner of parareligious crap.
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Jan 10
Some have asked me what I think about the Desmet thesis of “Mass Formation” (Maßenbildung - a better translation would be “crowd formation”) with respect to Corona hysteria. Malone has popularised it again, and I’m not a great fan of it.
First, I’m very wary of social psychology as a discipline. I think fields like this tend at the edges into pseudoscience. I am doubly wary, when the concepts at issue have an antifascist or anti-NSDAP flavour about them.
This is not because I am a Nazi, OK? I am not. It is because I think people are responsible for their political opinions and that pathologising political opinions is a bad idea that will bite you in the ass sooner or later.
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Jan 9
Christian Drosten's predecessor at Berlin Charité, the virologist Detlev Krüger, sends an open letter to the chancellor, cultural and educational ministers, demanding a return to normality in schools and an end to the mass-testing of school children.

welt.de/politik/deutsc…
There has been hidden opposition throughout academia and the bureaucracy this whole time, and they will begin to push back now, from multiple different angles, as Omicron threatens to bring the whole containment edifice to the ground.

If the narrative and policy collapse continues to gain momentum, it will soon outpace any countermeasures from journalists and politicians, and the hardest-line containment advocates will find themselves isolated, supporting ridiculous and universally loathed policies.
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Jan 7
We must recognise that the allegedly learned classes – at least the ones in senior positions – have totally lost their minds about Corona and no longer have any clear understanding of what is actually happening. They believe truly absurd things.
Beneath them are public health bureaucrats and advisors who are either lying to them constantly or trying gently to steer them back to some rough simulacrum of the true state of things. It is hard to know, how so many of them took such a wrong turn ...
... but clearly the best explanation for ongoing policy failures throughout the Eurozone and also in the US, is this kind of complete confusion about very basic disease statistics. It is like Afghanistan ...
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