Scenario Z: Covid is never brought under control, mutates too much every season to be managed like the flu, and goes endemic with higher base fatality rate and is too costly to chase with vaccines. Joins the top-3 ranks of steady modern killers alongside heart disease and cancer.

1/ 2020 will see the dawn of the metatribe. Here is an ethnography.

Doubt-impedance matching. To persuade smart people, you have to start from a posture of genuine doubt that matches theirs and work both of you into belief together. Belief is a relationship variable, not an individual one. It is founded on mutual information, not private.

Motivations Wanting the thing Wanting to be seen to want the thing Wanting to do the things needed to do the thing Wanting to be seen to do the things needed to do the thing Wanting to want the thing Wanting to want to do the thing Wanting to have done the thing