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    The Forever Virus - 4 year(s) ago

    Global herd immunity is now unreachable. How should governments’ strategy in the fight against COVID-19 change in response?

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    • RT @ForeignAffairs: “Supervariants could bring the world back to square one. It might be 2020 all over again.” https://t.co/vgWiytCpsj

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    IN THE good old days that preceded the Russian-German alliance Hitler railed at Marx and Communism, and Stalin at Fascism and Capitalism. Yet both dictators stood on common ground; for both insisted, as Marx had insisted long before them, that society is everything, that the individual citizen must submerge himself in the state and its destiny.

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    • Attacking + intimidation against prominent scientists is right out of the totalitarian authoritarian playbook as pointed out in this article from 1941. I have a paper out soon detailing this https://t.co/JrsfISYXcu

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    IN THE good old days that preceded the Russian-German alliance Hitler railed at Marx and Communism, and Stalin at Fascism and Capitalism. Yet both dictators stood on common ground; for both insisted, as Marx had insisted long before them, that society is everything, that the individual citizen must submerge himself in the state and its destiny.

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    • This essay from 1941 in @ForeignAffairs helped shape my thinking as did the 2020 book by @anneapplebaum https://t.co/JrsfISYXcu

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    The Forever Virus - 4 year(s) ago

    Global herd immunity is now unreachable. How should governments’ strategy in the fight against COVID-19 change in response?

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    • A Strategy for the Long Fight Against COVID-19 | Foreign Affairs ⁦@McCulloughBHVH⁩ ⁦@PierreKory⁩ ⁦@treatearly⁩ ⁦@AAPSonline⁩ https://t.co/EyxyOrPqCb

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    IN THE good old days that preceded the Russian-German alliance Hitler railed at Marx and Communism, and Stalin at Fascism and Capitalism. Yet both dictators stood on common ground; for both insisted, as Marx had insisted long before them, that society is everything, that the individual citizen must submerge himself in the state and its destiny.

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    • And this gem from 1941 @ForeignAffairs, time for an update, will try to make the time https://t.co/JrsfISYXcu

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    IN THE good old days that preceded the Russian-German alliance Hitler railed at Marx and Communism, and Stalin at Fascism and Capitalism. Yet both dictators stood on common ground; for both insisted, as Marx had insisted long before them, that society is everything, that the individual citizen must submerge himself in the state and its destiny.

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    • Read this 1941 essay from ⁦@ForeignAffairs⁩ X3, by Waldemar Kaempffert⁩. Although about Stalin USSR, Germany, it has relevance to what could happen to science under the far right in America. Their targeting me, colleagues from a similar playbook https://t.co/JrsfISYXcu

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    Why America should make its supply chain more transparent.

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    • "If the U.S. does not lead the way toward greater vaccine supply chain transparency, it can expect the rest of the world to mimic the worst behaviors of which Washington has been accused." @TomBollyky @ChadBown counter narrative to DPA as problem. https://t.co/vXQxg3YNfy

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    A powerful critique of the international humanitarian agencies dominating famine relief in Africa. Drawing on the work of economist Amartya Sen, the author argues that famine prevention requires a political contract that allows citizens to hold governments accountable for famine. Such a contract is rare in Africa, although most governments did recognize a political imperative to support their…

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    • Read Alex De Waal's Famine Crimes about the self-perpetuating humanitarian industrial complex. Then think about how patient advocacy groups function in similar ways. 1/ https://t.co/SdMrkhGbhK

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    The Forever Virus - 4 year(s) ago

    Global herd immunity is now unreachable. How should governments’ strategy in the fight against COVID-19 change in response?

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    • Could we use smallpox surveillance-containment / ring vaccination approach with COVID? Symptom screening and even individual-based testing unlikely to work... but perhaps wastewater and other environmental testing? https://t.co/jrbjhyqXOG —@larrybrilliant @RickABright & others