Thread by @_ppmv

1. What is our problem?

Pandemic policy is lost because no one puts the key message in one text / tweet, so it’s ALWAYS lost in translation. People switch off halfway through

One sense unit: (1) SARS risk; (2) what’s missing or to be done; (3) concrete group or demand to do it.

https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1614582050006114304

2. Okay journalists, let’s practice.

Guess why I like this article so much? Hint, read the headline

https://twitter.com/denise_dewald/status/1614200696722817027

3. Correct. (1) Do the thing where you don’t just copy-paste the words of power. (2) We have a problem of missing, cooked or ill understood data worldwide. It’s fast getting worse. (3) Talk to *former* or independent (=unscripted) public health experts.

Some are even on Twitter!

https://twitter.com/jfeldman_epi/status/1614418164644810752

4. Airborne transmission is controversial in the west, perhaps because no one wants to pay for proper PPE (N95+ plus eye protection against SARS). Why does no one talk about eye protection for HCWs? XBB.1.5 will efficiently infect the eye; it could even be involved in Long Covid.

https://twitter.com/kashprime/status/1614435744742785031

5. Anyone who didn’t follow the science of the past 1100 days, get cracking.

I wouldn’t want to be in your skin. It will be disorientating to the extreme if you don’t know what the above is all about. My sincere advice is read @fitterhappierAJ, he cares and has a way with words.

https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1603872406484967437

6. I shared this previously as shortcut to the pandemic games you as journalist or reader are part of. It languishes at 4,000 views, no sign of public interest.

Personally I wouldn’t pass up one of the better chances you got. Understanding the rules the virus sets will help you.

https://twitter.com/realcheckmarker/status/1611339215991701504

7. What is this liminal space?

Is it journalism? - If you define journalism as nearly starving to share deeply reported information without business model, well yes, then I/we’ve done (citizen) journalism because the media is failing in a question of existential risk to society.

8. You can support me on patreon/PayPal so I may continue to share+find ways to work on our deeper problems. Any support is much appreciated, thanks all! 🙏

We need all help we can get against the tremendous power of legacy systems and asystemic thinking. patreon.com/paulmaidowski

I don’t write on patreon - Twitter and mastodon teach* more - but friends tell me I should write long-form for wider readers, as only few of us navigate this site at ease (for age, aesthetics, harassment or any reason).

Hence may try substack!

* reach; great #Autokorrektur 🥰

9. Great political storytelling by @RealTadzioM. I add a systems thinker-political scientist-activist view. At the intersection of climate, public health + public wealth lies what we seek. Time to build.

Its a system-of-systems problem: a syndemic. Ty all, be well,

#SIDU 230115

https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1614657729972559872

10. What makes SARS so dangerous?

If you begin to explain, most brains?switch off as if by magic. This includes virologists and HIV scientists who cannot think past “no retrovirus” and cannot visualize the epidemiology of the virus.

It’s 💯 embarrassing (Fremdschämen) to watch.

https://twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1614523825944682497

11. Our trajectory is unsustainable. It’s a simple fact and matter of ice-cold, dispassionate logic that it will change. Zero surprise.

The only questions are how, who, when, etc.

https://twitter.com/realcheckmarker/status/1614676132800126977