Thread by @DyorsMathew

/ 🧵I. The two false binaries (“the double binary fallacy”) upon which public health responses to #SARSCoV2 mostly have been based on so far

This thread is part 1 of 7 of the mother thread #FreshStart2PublicDebate.

/ This subthread conjectures that public health responses have been relying on an overly simplistic understanding of immunity and of health, respectively.

/ Arguing black and white is of course almost always wrong. Health is not black and white. Immunity is not black and white.

However, people often argue that they have "had COVID-19" and seem to be done with the topic.

/ So we need to think about mainstream information. About information theory, the influence of information on our globalized world, on processes deciding about leadership, and also about understanding immunity and health in nuanced way.

/ Public health responses across the globe show strong signs of originating from a mainstream understanding of #SARSCoV2 based mainly on two false binaries: the “double binary fallacy”.

/ This exposes a severe weakness of how societies deal with information has been exposed by virtue of the unfolding climate and public health disasters.

/ Turning to conjectured roots of the currently unfolding public health disaster, the first false binary is that health is binary. Considering health to be binary means primarily considering people to be either alive or dead, but not paying much attention to health status.

/ The second false binary is that immunity is binary. Considering immunity to be binary means primarily considering people to be immune or not immune to a pathogen, but not paying much attention to different aspects of immunity, and to antigenic drift and waning of immunity.

/ In so far, the states of health and of immunity more strongly resemble what would be described by qubits than what would be described by bits of information.

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/ Link to the mother thread

https://twitter.com/DyorsMathew/status/1590427508226551808?s=20&t=3FW47lwoIyVM2dQKm9T1jw