Pandemic Stovepipe
#22 Mental models: this virus creates population immunity less quickly than chicken pox, faster than HIV. With an infectiousness resembling measles.
Contents:
Overview
Autoimmunity
¡Infodemico! Héroes, villanos
=>Infodemic - Stovepipe
=>Infodemic - No man’s land
**FACES**
Testing
Last-Mile Vaccination!
Introduction: It is striking to see how thoroughly news-consuming people tune out the pandemic until they’re forced to dial back in. One reader who is immunosuppressed and pays to support this newsletter had not heard of long COVID as of a week ago. This person keeps up on all things pandemic.
The COVID tune-out must have happened at the top levels of the pandemic leadership in the U.S. Back in the lead up to the 2003 Iraq war, when many kids were forced to learn more about politics for the first time, “Stovepipe” was the term one journalist gave to the practice of presenting to U.S. leadership only intelligence supporting the invasion, and discarding intelligence questioning the justifying evidence.
This point in the pandemic in which the U.S. leadership was caught off guard late in December seems to be led by Stovepipe MD pandemic pundits …
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