Exceptionally I share this 🧵 before reading the studies therein, because (1) it is above my nonexistent pay grade; the wizards among you will be better qualified; and (2) as emotional support. It is incredibly sad that we let this population-scale experiment proceed unmitigated.
https://twitter.com/realcheckmarker/status/1613934092940099589
1. We have been warning with exceptional clarity for more than half a year (or three years, depending what you count).
Yet it is different if you drill into the mechanisms - as you must if you want to explain and bend policy, against the forces of normal.
Yet it is different if you drill into the mechanisms - as you must if you want to explain and bend policy, against the forces of normal.
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1525135611400790017
2. Here another great Canadian report building on the SARS Commission report by Mario Possamai (his surname’s literal meaning: he who never rests). Canada seems to be ahead of other countries in the pandemic race or in documenting lessons not learned. 🙏😌 nursesunions.ca/wp-content/upl… 
3. Virologists are giving policymakers and the public flawed advice in the Fourth year.
Feel free to ignore me, but as an activist-scholar I say it clearly. We experience an unprecedented collapse of the problem-solving ability of large-scale institutions like states or empires.
Feel free to ignore me, but as an activist-scholar I say it clearly. We experience an unprecedented collapse of the problem-solving ability of large-scale institutions like states or empires.
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1610080303506247681
4. Why I warn: It’s a nonlinear process. (N and Orf10 are close/can overlap)
I tried to understand what Germany - or any country, safe China -’s plan is.
If you keep reinfecting children or adults, many won’t grow old.
No need to have your own children to know what that means.
I tried to understand what Germany - or any country, safe China -’s plan is.
If you keep reinfecting children or adults, many won’t grow old.
No need to have your own children to know what that means.
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1565647133658828800
5. We knew most of this by summer 2020, if not by February. I didn’t understand how exactly the elements fit together, but they were all there. Of course we can wait a few more years, never to risk being “wrong” or seen as “alarmist”
Or we can help people who urgently need help.
Or we can help people who urgently need help.
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1221720031387701248
6. For all who paid attention, it’s been a long three years.
If you see me impatient with the arrogant virologists who keep misleading billions worldwide in year Four, you now know why. It is unacceptable on any grounds - moral, human rights, national interest, you name it.
If you see me impatient with the arrogant virologists who keep misleading billions worldwide in year Four, you now know why. It is unacceptable on any grounds - moral, human rights, national interest, you name it.
7. How do you feel about where we are heading?
Especially all of you who are wildly more qualified* to address it?
* that makes 💯 of #medtwitter and many other professions.
I studied some law, economics, IR/public policy, system dynamics - but nothing prepared me for this.
Especially all of you who are wildly more qualified* to address it?
* that makes 💯 of #medtwitter and many other professions.
I studied some law, economics, IR/public policy, system dynamics - but nothing prepared me for this.
8. This is not to criticize; more to warn as clearly as possible after a full three years in this pandemic somehow convinced most people that the pandemic is “over” at precisely the moment when it’s really ramping up to whatever the next phase is, now that China entered the game.
To warn clearly: if enough people ignore it, it will fall heavily on your feet. Not by choice; it’s how a SARS virus evolving for higher viral load behaves. (The weird exception being - Omicron!)
It falls on your feet unless you take great precautions to stop it well in advance.
It falls on your feet unless you take great precautions to stop it well in advance.
None of this should need much explaining, certainly no three years.
The flip side of my not being qualified in any of it is that literally anyone else could do what I do, and likely far better.
Go ahead if that’s you! We need you.
Thanks all.
The flip side of my not being qualified in any of it is that literally anyone else could do what I do, and likely far better.
Go ahead if that’s you! We need you.
Thanks all.
9. Make sure no one stumbles over the word collapse: it describes what you are currently experiencing, the feeling of disorientation and loss of meaning when things don’t fit anymore - or, for some, never did. An old friend of ours on the climate side, now meeting the mainstream.
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1503942707235934211
10. We’ve been there, don’t despair.
I think there’s meaning in struggling for solutions - or with their absence. But it is an acquired gift. You need to work for it.
I don’t think of SARS as existential in the same sense as climate. It’s decades faster and solvable. We should!
I think there’s meaning in struggling for solutions - or with their absence. But it is an acquired gift. You need to work for it.
I don’t think of SARS as existential in the same sense as climate. It’s decades faster and solvable. We should!
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1315010526628458503
11. Let me add, as I saw even @W_Lucht, great scientist and voice of wisdom or moral clarity in the climate field, struggle (see above and @ClimatePhilo’s book).
Yes, addressing SARS and climate will take time and focus. Let’s start. 🙏
Solidarity #Luetzerrath #Luetzerathbleibt
Yes, addressing SARS and climate will take time and focus. Let’s start. 🙏
Solidarity #Luetzerrath #Luetzerathbleibt
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1521108943837220864
11.S1 Not to quote out of the blue. 🙏✊
https://twitter.com/w_lucht/status/1613307165120282624
12. I always end on a constructive note. The solutions for SARS and climate will be related. Both are merely symptoms of deeper ailings in society that we need to address.
Start with aviation, WHO and the United Nations: Fantastic thread to know whom to trust or what to do. 😎🔥
Start with aviation, WHO and the United Nations: Fantastic thread to know whom to trust or what to do. 😎🔥
https://twitter.com/realcheckmarker/status/1611339215991701504
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