Katie NotopoulosDec 19, 2022
I’m thinking about Jan 2022 vs Dec 2022… how it seems like everything (in tech) has done a 180. Twitter, obviously. But also like, NFTs were the hottest thing! Crypto ads in the Super Bowl! Now it’s completely collapsed. Meta, Amazon et all layoffs, something previously unthinkable. What else?? What about the flip - something that started the year in the toilet and ended up succeeding?
Show threadShuvo of the LeftDec 19, 2022

@peepeepoopoop This is indeed pretty amazing.

For me, it seems like COVID kinda pulled off the flip; last Jan it looked like we’d finally figure out how to mitigate infections effectively & permanently yet now it’s just “let ‘er rip!” everywhere, like basically the shrug emoji en masse. Arguably it goes beyond COVID to all pandemics; I mean monkey pox & even Ebola barely make any news now. Like…how? Are this many of us seriously OK dying/suffering/losing certain abilities so miserably? Weird.

Show threadKkressDec 19, 2022
@ghoshuvo @peepeepoopoop Mpox (in the US) these days is mostly good news. The most impacted group, MSM, and the LGBTQ+ community went all in for vaccinations and now it’s nearly gone. Experts think it can once again be eradicated in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/mpx-trends.html
Mopox in the U.S.

Learn more about mpox in the United States.

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Show threadGlyph
@Kkress @ghoshuvo @peepeepoopoop thank you for this! I hadn’t heard much about it but this is a GREAT reason why! (And thank you to the LGBTQ+ community for being apparently vastly better at vaccinations than the general population …)
Dec 20, 2022 at 4:53amToot!