It was always seasonal, but every piece of received wisdom about respiratory viruses was thrown out the window in March 2020 “because it’s *novel*!” …something I discussed in detail in July of 2020…
Mark Changizi, lobotomized@MarkChangizi
0/ Thread on how mass-media-induced fear of COVID irrationally transformed our priors.
I have talked a lot about the mass hysteria that was created...
This thread gets more at the many facets of common sense it wrecked.
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Mark Changizi, lobotomized @MarkChangizi
The moral of coronavirus19 will be that social contagion via social networks is more dangerous than biological contagion.
11:40 AM · Jul 20, 2020
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…and I discuss these issues in this Moment.
…and you can read about these issues — and my solution to the riddle of induction w/ Tim Barber — here in Chapter 3 of my first book, The Brain from 25000 Feet.
