Pinning this 🙏 Simple argument, as COVID-cyberpunk as it gets. Add a shade of climate and you're good to fly: Reverse the global trend of supervillainy that SARS will usher into unless we stop it. - We CAN, by simple effective policy. Just as in all the WHO/UN superhero stories. 
https://twitter.com/RealCheckMarker/status/1618568837120790529
1. Did the superhero stories forget to mention political scientists? - The simple effective policy is
N95+eye protection
test & trace
isolation of the infected
international travel surveillance & quarantine
They involve plane science, no rocket science.
N95+eye protection
test & trace
isolation of the infected
international travel surveillance & quarantine
They involve plane science, no rocket science.
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1618254517518364672
2. We also forgot those who will end the pandemic: lawyers!
Not scholars or practitioners of international law alone -- but it follows from the structure of our systemic problems that no solution can work without them.
Not scholars or practitioners of international law alone -- but it follows from the structure of our systemic problems that no solution can work without them.
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1617834099691094018
3. Here the real SARS-cyberpunk Reality Graph:
Every time it dips low enough, we have a chance to end the pandemic.
We should not wait until 2050 to do it.
Every time it dips low enough, we have a chance to end the pandemic.
We should not wait until 2050 to do it.
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1566790453051236352
4. 'Wie SAGS ich meinen Kindern?,' we say in German.
Very useful way to structure the problem: make sure you understand what we can lose AND, because all this is positive and constructive, what we can learn.
Very useful way to structure the problem: make sure you understand what we can lose AND, because all this is positive and constructive, what we can learn.
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1618294902634446848
5. Enjoy the climate parallels! I think they speak for themselves.
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1562355627019702272
6. Superhero stories always come with SURPRISE plot twists because David has to slay viral Goliath in the end by following the precautionary principle and WHO's core components in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC). who.int/teams/integrat…
https://twitter.com/RadCentrism/status/1507845766756282373
7. Our surprise plot twist is that SARS 2003 taught us what to do, and SARS 2019 what happens if we don't.
https://twitter.com/RealCheckMarker/status/1611399126599483396
We should probably just do it.
8. We were lucky with Omicron in a horrible way. We may be less lucky next time!
Please focus, for yourself, your children or because a permapandemic will affect everything else you care about.
Please focus, for yourself, your children or because a permapandemic will affect everything else you care about.
https://twitter.com/RealCheckMarker/status/1618573667264507906
9. I elaborated aspects in depth, to speak to generalists, systems or public policy audiences. For expert assessments read deeper yourself.
Even more concerning than the viral tropism is the human hubris.
Even more concerning than the viral tropism is the human hubris.
https://twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1618600928655069185
As Dr. Leonardi has, I believe, previously said: looking back at three years of experts being humbled by a virus, expect to be humbled further until we ourselves change fundamentally.
We see the same social dynamics as in climate science and policy, at greatly accelerated pace.
We see the same social dynamics as in climate science and policy, at greatly accelerated pace.
10. How do you wrap a thread like this?
Whatever someone cares about, there's an angle to grab their attention. Not just insurance companies or parents, but the hardestcore car fetishists will care about accidents for example.
Another old climate lesson.
Whatever someone cares about, there's an angle to grab their attention. Not just insurance companies or parents, but the hardestcore car fetishists will care about accidents for example.
Another old climate lesson.
https://twitter.com/1goodtern/status/1618561900022988802
Population-wide SARS-acquired neurocognitive decline (SAND) will be less fun than it sounds, and sounds no fun even on day one.
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1586801852544389125
11. Learning will be highly nonlinear, perhaps even within months or by 2025, or so I claimed. People may not [be in a position to] care for 'the world', but we all have a super finely attuned sense of smell for hypocrisy and inequity. @GeorgeMonbiot:
https://twitter.com/ChristineLoriol/status/1618618174114795520
@GeorgeMonbiot I stated that we may hit 425 ppm CO2 by 2025, pushing the climate system into a Miocene state beyond even our current state, the Pliocene.
2025 can also see the end of the pandemic, bringing us within reach of living our hottest, best lives SARS-free yet.
2025 can also see the end of the pandemic, bringing us within reach of living our hottest, best lives SARS-free yet.
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1590086015653654528
@GeorgeMonbiot 12. You see, we end on a constructive note, as ever.
What does climate have in common with epidemiology?
What does climate have in common with epidemiology?
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1617558481992663045
@GeorgeMonbiot 13. A question is Covid in China and former ZC countries.
Now (1) #ZeroCovid policy is politically dead (?) but scientifically the only way out (=math). (2) The west is largely uninformed on SARS and China's challenge.
As ever I hope to be wrong on both.
Now (1) #ZeroCovid policy is politically dead (?) but scientifically the only way out (=math). (2) The west is largely uninformed on SARS and China's challenge.
As ever I hope to be wrong on both.
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1589592343011004418
@GeorgeMonbiot 14. Another question is why we need to repeat so much. This thread by @AndrewEwing11 aged so exceptionally for example, I'd guess it's minus three days old.
But no, this is July 2021!
But no, this is July 2021!
https://twitter.com/AndrewEwing11/status/1418173088643141635
@GeorgeMonbiot @AndrewEwing11 15. Drosten 12/2022: "This winter is the first endemic wave (?) of Sars-Cov-2, ending the pandemic"
Fantini 01/2023: "Convergent evolution dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 and HIV surface envelope glycoproteins driven by host cell surface receptors and lipid rafts" mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/3…
Fantini 01/2023: "Convergent evolution dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 and HIV surface envelope glycoproteins driven by host cell surface receptors and lipid rafts" mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/3…
@GeorgeMonbiot @AndrewEwing11 I never saw a profession as confidently wrong for YEARS as virologists on SARS.
Entire fields like public health and epidemiology are idling - or in despair - when they should be working on their lifetime challenge, because politicians are in denial.
We can do better than this.
Entire fields like public health and epidemiology are idling - or in despair - when they should be working on their lifetime challenge, because politicians are in denial.
We can do better than this.
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