“…the key to HIV prevention is that it has been selective, not universal. It focuses on communities most at…

“…the key to HIV prevention is that it has been selective, not universal. It focuses on communities most at risk.” We’ve fallen into a trap with Covid. Universalising something that has very specific, manageable causes. 1/5 https://t.co/UO1cKsp7iL

By adopting the ‘doomer’ narratives of Covid minimisers, who successfully organise resistance to Covid action by painting that action as universal disruption. Covid is not universally present in the community. Just as HIV wasn’t. It *can* become very widespread. 2/5

At the peak of waves. But those waves are driven by a relatively tiny number of highly specific superspreading hubs. Both sides of Covid debates often share the universalising framings. 3/5

As do sides of the violence against women debates, portraying the problem as a universal issue with male culture. See the link in Tweet 1 of this thread for an excellent discussion of that mistake, for that topic. 4/5

Social media loves universalising narratives because they’re battle narratives. For the team sports that happen there. The more specific and analytical we are, the faster and easier we will solve problems. /end