Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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RT @nick_routledge: @Aelkus I treat & regard influenza & Covid as serious diseases. Yet relative to the 1889-90 & 1918-20 pandemics, Covid is genuinely mild. What, then, explains our fierce terror about it? Life, modernism and us existentially revealed as lacking the security, order and control we imagine?

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Quoted by@jeffreyatucker Whatever one’s perspective on covid, it’s patently clear that immense numbers of folk - perhaps most - are stricken by profound, subjective, existential fear in the face of it, and respond accordingly. Our challenge is fundamental: that ain’t a sickness medical religion can fix.Quoted by@JNaureckas @FAIRmediawatch @nypost So, what are you saying?Quoted by@moshik_temkin Speaking as a neighborhood Covid medic in the trenches, whereas such disregard may well characterize our dominant biomedical response, therapeutic modalities which proved highly effective in the Spanish and 1889-90 Russian Flu, draw deeply upon experience of earlier pandemics.