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I remember going from (a) "it won't be an issue here in the US" to (b) "man do we have to shut EVERYTHING down?" to (c) "we'll be here through 2021" in a matter of two weeks tops. People don't talk about how fast-moving the early pandemic was @vvictorman_uel/1367323904725901313Permalink On twitter.com
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I held (a) because a lot of the COVID early adopters were obvious sinophobes pedaling unhinged conspiracy theories about a communist bioweapon and racist fantasies about Chinese people eating raw bat in "wet markets"Permalink On twitter.com
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I held (b) for a short period of time because my university was basically shutting everything off without supporting studentsPermalink On twitter.com
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I switched to (c) when I learned: - the government knew in January and lied to protect corporate profits - local workers telling me they couldn't leave or they'd starve or be evicted - that one time the CDC tested like 70 people on a basketball team when we had unchecked spreadPermalink On twitter.com
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Once I got to that point the whole "two weeks to flatten the curve" stuff was an obvious lie. It could never work given how the state and capital were treating the crisis.On twitter.com
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It was around then that I first started thinking about joining a leftist organization. But it wasn't until after the primary + George Floyd that I committed to it. Wow what memories 😒Permalink On twitter.com