It only looked scary to the public because our information infrastructure has gotten so rotten (b/c of copywrong laws). On February 17th, 2020, the first big d

It only looked scary to the public because our information infrastructure has gotten so rotten (b/c of copywrong laws). On February 17th, 2020, the first big dataset on Covid was released (N > 70,000), and it was crystal clear that this wasn't going to be that big a deal. I even Tweeted about it: https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1229648681483169792 https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1229648681483169792 The biology and epidemiology of the thing was so easy to figure out (I am in an epidemiology department at a cancer center). This was a bad flu (2x - 4x worse than a typical flu). What I never anticipated was the extent of the brokenness of our information ecosystem, and the amount of dumb and dishonest people in power.