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Mar 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1. Every step, embrace, word connects us.

Stunning view on dance, the 1980s NYC AIDS community, human connection.

To illustrate what @mylesbyrne may be saying - or what tango people will dance tonight just like every week in Berlin’s #kitkatclub - 🔊:
2. For those who don’t know techno or KitKat club
3. Just a minor example, but consider the deeper (epidemiological, political) point. If your public policy doesn’t reflect these facets of life, I have bad news for your public policy.
4. Precisely

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Mar 20
1. Every day, not just today, is IPCC time. Hop on in!

It's all atmospheric and ocean chemistry in the end, genuinely fascinating. At a deeper level, then, it's about the culture and mental models that drive human behavior in the physical world.

How does public health come in?
2. Societies that reorganize to eliminate SARS-CoV will learn the governance skills, civil virtues, mental models to address climate.

Both are deeply connected:——syndemic.

If it helps you to humanize SARS-CoV-2 as villain forcing us to learn, fine! See it as human rights issue.
3. Background: read the article and thread (including ideally some references).

This is easily an introductory climate class: if you understand these concepts, you're well prepared.
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Mar 20
1. IPCC presser.

@LeonSimons8 is right—climate-aerosol dynamics are explained incorrectly.

@RealTadzioM @ReiSteurer @JKSteinberger are right—natural scientists do stunning work, but are unfit for social science/#polsci or scicomm.
@LeonSimons8 @RealTadzioM @ReiSteurer @JKSteinberger 2. Fantastic thread, do share.
@LeonSimons8 @RealTadzioM @ReiSteurer @JKSteinberger Julia blocked me for some reason; it's rare for a thread of hers to appear in my timeline. Well worth reading.
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Mar 20
1. Good question, not just for scientists. Remember that cell-level dynamics determine global outcomes.

IF SARS-CoVs behave like influenza, the problem "solves" itself, as current policy worldwide assumes.

BUT they don't. Social systems will destabilize. It's a systems problem.
2. SARS-CoV don't follow the 'textbook' rules of virology. Someone needs to rewrite the textbooks, but policy change cannot wait.

It's untenable for anonymous accounts on twitter, not national health authorities, to share such information with the public.
3. PhD level scicomm: "Read the citations not the paper!"

The citations: literally *thousands of papes,* incl. Tolstoy 🤣🙏 Image
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Mar 20
Feedback time! For what it's worth, we have serious policy problems to address. - thanks for some 7k followers for a non-affiliated, no-name account like mine. Much appreciate all exchange and learning!
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What will always be funny: - Asking "How we can sustain complex societies over the coming decades?" garnered so little attention that my autodelete function killed it lmao. Thanks for all who care and try their best!
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Mar 19
This great Dark Anthropocene scholar meme by the kind @EliotJacobson reminded me to update the Covid equivalent.

It’s a point @RealCheckMarker made on ‘corporate democracies’ that sacrifice their citizens’ health for the (minuscule+highly subsidized) profit of airlines. However, Image
There are subtler versions, but here the simple math:
I’ll need updates on all the banks and economies we saved and will need to save as long as we follow the present “living with COVID” fetish.

Call me once folks are tired of that and want to try “living without Covid”.

😆🙏
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Mar 19
Meet the dumbest possible pandemic view, kindly verbalized by Leana Wen. Do the exact opposite of whatever she proposes and you should do fine for yourself.

How is she ever let anywhere near a policy (advice) role? That’s the real question here. Image
While Twitter never is medical advice, you now see virologic failure (sounds less cute than Paxlovid ‘rebound’, no? 🤦🏻‍♀️), viral persistence and resistance. Had MDs/scientists paid any attention, they’d have known better than to try monotherapies vs. SARS-CoV.
(1) Read this presentation (on HIV viral load) to understand the basic dynamics. (2) We warned extremely clearly. There is no way to beat SARS and SARS-CoV - disease and virus - if scientists continue to ignore the harsh lessons learned in 40 years of HIV science.
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