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Mar 17 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
The brilliant @mylesbyrne always alerts me to essential, overlooked details. As pandemic-inactivated tango dancer, let me vote "It takes two to tango" as most misleading overused political phrase of the decade.
It doesn't take two.

You always dance with the whole room.

It takes society—profound feelings, often of pain/nostalgia and joy/intensity of connection—and countless human interactions to create music and dance over generations.

In each tanda, you dance in the shadow of giants.
It takes only one to infect half a packed milonga, danced for hours.

Do you see why SARS-CoV's cultural impact will far exceed HIV?

And boy did HIV have an impact. We haven't started facing reality yet in society; the knowledge is still twitter-confined.
No reactions yet to this idea to cover the cultural side of SARS, here by scientific rap, starting with (serious public health risk) molnupiravir. If $200 isn't much money to you, get in touch to jumpstart the crowdfunding with @BabaBrinkman. Thanks all! 😎
@BabaBrinkman Check out @BabaBrinkman at #COP27, and I hope #COP28. Culture is how we got into this mess—read @GhoshAmitav to see why—; culture is how we get out.
@BabaBrinkman @GhoshAmitav We face the Unthinkable. Make it Speakable, Thinkable, Rappable for all I care. This is how we restore sanity and public values worthy of the name to society -- instead of stumbling unseeing, unheard downhill. As @AndrewPJones likes to say: Go get them!

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1. XBB era

We may conclude the Omicron era (2021-2023). RIP!

See XBB.1.16 XBB.1.9.1 mutations in Orf9b and this thread on 'hypothetical' gene Orf10. Everyone talks about the SARS-CoV spike protein. The nucleocapsid (N) is more important.

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Mar 17
I'll share bilingual content if time affords, never mind poor language skills. Play to twitter's strengths as polarization intensifies and it gets harder to communicate across academic & cultural boundaries.

Kind souls sometimes translate me+others. Love it; more of this please!
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"If you know it, you avoid it / If you know it, it doesn't kill you". - The PR/scicomm we need, fast before the average person was infected multiple times.

SARS is the great policy question of our era that no policy scholar - god forbid policymaker - addresses.

Come on everyone
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1. Life expectancy in a world Living with Covid

People want citations for the claim survival rates 20 years post infection at age 50 may be less than 30%. Look at emerging trends. =>Lawyers and epidemiologists’ job

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See old societies like Japan, Germany.
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$2k scientific rap €4 billion airline revenue

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Address causes of a SARS pandemic
You see how public health and science are not on equal footing, right?

Some are flying higher than others! Time to ground them in facts again.
Some may think I’m joking in saying there is a tradeoff between climate and society, or my identities as climate scholar/activist and other roles in life.

We may be transparent on Twitter, but wider society is not.

Public health makes this clear. We need to address it clearly.
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