Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
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Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
To make matters worse, sometimes the immune system overreacts to the invader, setting in motion something known as a “cytokine storm” that worsens, rather than improves, the situation. In the process, the body releases substances intended to help coordinate the defense against the invader, but the substances wind up harming cells in the lungs (and
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Contact tracing—the gumshoe work of the public health system whereby one goes backward from a known case to see who the patient has been in contact with—revealed that at least sixty people had been exposed to Patient Zero. Amazingly, none of them got sick. Later genetic analyses confirmed that this patient was very likely not responsible for the ep
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Zoom out, and you can see that scarcity has been the story of the whole pandemic response. In early 2020, Americans were told to not wear masks, because we apparently didn’t have enough to go around. Last year, Americans were told to not get booster shots, because we apparently didn’t have enough to go around. Today, we’re worried about people usin
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Second-order effects of THE COVID-19 outbreak:
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