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Fauci Fatigue & Maddow in the Metaverse

Notes on Jack Dorsey's successor, the stratification of digital media, and Omicron-era information overload.

Rachel Maddow is played during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting
Photo By Tom Williams-Pool/Getty
Baratunde Thurston
January 27, 2022

I’m going to begin with a disclosure: I am not a medical professional. I am not an epidemiologist, nor a virologist. I’m a person who has had to learn way more about all these things than I ever intended, so allow me to put on my fake epidemiologist hat and offer the perspective of a tired citizen who’s frustrated at just about everything and everyone associated with Covid.