If you don't want there to be sides during a pandemic, you have to engineer the pathogen such that it causes every infected person to melt in a puddle of grease with near 100% probability in about a week, with near 100% probability of transmission via any casual contact with infected persons at any stage of their infection. You just watch everyone scramble to the same side!

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cryptonector 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

> If you don't want there to be sides during a pandemic, you have to engineer the pathogen such that it [...]

Interesting phrase. "Engineer the pathogen".

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motorest 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> If you don't want there to be sides during a pandemic, (...)

Why do you believe a pandemic has sides?

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kazinator 5 days ago | parent [-]

I believe it was recently observed.

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ndsipa_pomu 5 days ago | parent [-]

It was mainly observed in parts of the USA

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		1. Yes, parts of the USA inhabited by people. 2. Divided attitudes with regard to the locus of issues around Covid-19, and public policies, are far from exclusive to the USA.

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whackernews 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And look. The government doesn’t have to do anything!

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