https://twitter.com/AliceAvizandum/status/1617316050806403074

everybody wants to be a moralist

Each class has their own moralism, but the most cringe are the smug "I don't have a political ideology"

a virus is just a weird little copy machine that doesn’t care if you’re scared of it or whether you’re a good person

https://www.sciencealert.com/more-americans-are-finally-coming-around-to-the-idea-that-life-really-does-evolve

A dialectical (evolutionary) view shows that it cares very much about people helping it spread its genes, letting more virus in the air creates more variants.

I get being scared and thinking ill health happens predictably and rationally so you can rationalise your way out of it, but it doesn’t

So first the virus is a mere "copy machine", but now it's not able to be rationalized?

the Hippocratic doctor's oath has a line about "avoiding the two traps of therapeutic nihilism and overtreatment". Folks, don't be a nihilist 19th century British doctor who tells you there's nothing you can do about anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutic_nihilism