Looking at Israel’s data last night made me think about how we look at Covid data as being about the virus.…

Looking at Israel’s data last night made me think about how we look at Covid data as being about the virus. When actually it’s much more about us, the people. These epidemiological curves show social behaviour more than virus behaviour. /1 #auspol #covid19aus https://t.co/pQYxRVs2PK

The virus on its own can do nothing, it uses us to spread and grow. Have Tweeted before (https://t.co/1stDMhEXNh) about how our societies are now adolescent cultures, incubated in our schools. You can see that in the curves. The yo-yo of euphoria and retreat. /2

No adult grit and determination, epidemiology driven by waves of euphoria, boredom and fear. In poorer nations without this high school culture, you see similar epidemic waves. But they don’t have the same extensive public health infrastructure as we do. These are the curves…/3 https://t.co/T7dGxpsvne

…WE *shouldn’t* have. Our public health institutions were designed to smooth or level them. Public health was never going to get much say in modern libertarian nations though, who don’t have any idea now of what the ‘public’ even is. /end