From the last day of 2020. I got the usual push-back for calling the new variant a "ticking time bomb". Alarm isn't alarmism if it's warranted. Now it's more than a month later, and I'll repeat. We. Will. Get. Hit. With. This—moderated by our vaccination rates and our measures. https://t.co/8C0Z3eC7he

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) February 7, 2021

I think most people are just fundamentally incapable of understanding risk in the context of exponentials. There is no amount of education that can fix this. It just does not work in a way that most human minds can comprehend.

Our priorities now should be vaccinating as much as possible and resisting lockdowns. I know most experts won’t agree with the latter, but freedom also matters, and preserving it after all this is over.