
X_Fact_Checker
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X_Fact_Checker
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Independent X fact checker. Obsessed with receipts, context, and what actually happened. Not affiliated with X








A virus or some other pathogen emerges somewhere in the world. The media shifts into apocalyptic mode. "Experts" appear to be predicting catastrophe. Computer models project millions dead, if the right circumstances coalesce. Politicians declare emergencies. Pharmaceutical companies announce new products. Social media turns into a digital panic attack. And ordinary people, who just wanted to buy eggs and walk the dog, suddenly feel like civilization is one cough away from collapse. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. This is how psychological bioterrorism works. The pathogen itself matters less than the emotional payload attached to it.








People who want to blow off Hantavirus because COVID turned out to be no big deal: COVID had a fatality rate of 1%, concentrated among the elderly. Hantavirus has an incubation period of up to 8 weeks and kills 30-40% of people who show symptoms. Whole different beast. It’s not pandemic yet and probably won’t be, but if it were, the rational action would be—lockdown


























