1. The shock of 2020: we learned a pandemic can strike US out of the blue.
We worried climate would lose the little salience we'd won in 2019 and worked unpaid overtime for months/years to link both to deeper socioeconomic problem structures.
2. The shock of 2021 was Omicron: we learned how eagerly people dismissed it.
Spoiler: we then pissed away one year telling ourselves it was "mild", "a natural vaccine", "we were lucky"; rather than taking preparations for SARS eradication, which would work just like in 2003.
3. The surprise of 2022 was seeing the last #ZeroCovid countries like New Zealand, Taiwan and China remove protections even though they everyone who was remotely interested and science-literate knew what would happen.
Intellectuals who promote "living with SARS" policy don't know the real risk as they never studied the primary literature. German examples I appreciate for otherwise good FP analysis: @fuecks@ulrichspeck@thorstenbenner etc. Can't deny that it's intriguing to see tragedy unfold!
Few seem to analyze global affairs with the scientific rigor needed to stop SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Schengen/EU, let alone worldwide. Thus we now face great risk.
More of us should work to build sustainable models. This however will require funding. 🫠
1. Lauterbach warnte vor unheilbarer Immunschwäche durch #Corona. "Wer sich öfter mit Corona infiziert, läuft offenbar Gefahr, an einer unheilbaren Immunschwäche zu erkranken." - Ja, wir haben 20 Jahre Erfahrung mit SARS-Überlebenden.
1. Don't ask me how the outbreak.info tracking works; I just took a @T_Brautigan link and hit buttons at random until it roughly made sense. (There's 100% better ways to display this.) Legend:
Our children will experience Earth heating faster than in 12 to 55 million years. Learn from states' errors and asystemic, linear thinking of the past 3 years.
The next 3 years need to see international cooperation emerge. WHO @DrTedros 👍
@DrTedros 2. My kind reminder for scientists and anyone who works in public policy. We've seen enough model magic in epidemiology AND in climate. SARS-CoV-2 should have taught you that reality denial helps no one in the long run. Please focus.
Says @RoyScranton, "Amidst the stresses, grief, and terrors of life, there is this, too: a rich ongoing conversation, an elaborate tapestry of narrative and thought." - Adding the SARS-CoV-2 library, a virus of epic, poetic qualities. Note the juxtaposition of Pope and pregnancy,
And yes, you'll be forgiven for thinking the library may need some work. Not top of the agenda though; no one pays me for this.
We will pay dearly for not better structuring the ongoing conversation - and resultant political priorities; I'll recommend placing this high on the public agenda. Background as per the kind @fitterhappierAJ,