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|name=Eric Weinstein | |||
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|content=“...while the flu is the real threat.” | |||
Who gets to say simplistic categorical and definitive pronouncements like this with impunity, the certainty of God, and no consequence? Only the Knarc. | |||
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|content=Knarc, n.: 1) A person who would be easily seen to be a crank, but for the fact of practicing their cranky behavior through the protection of an institution which gives their crankiness legitimacy. 2) Crank spelled backwards. | |||
Here we check in with our journalists from Feb. 2020: | |||
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|name=The Daily Beast | |||
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|content=Coronavirus, with zero American fatalities, is dominating headlines, while the flu is the real threat https://www.thedailybeast.com/flu-not-coronavirus-is-the-virus-killing-us-kids-like-luca-calanni/ | |||
|timestamp=11:20 PM · Feb 7, 2021 | |||
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|timestamp=12:54 AM · May 23, 2021 | |||
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|timestamp=12:57 AM · May 23, 2021 | |||
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