Immunity Debt? Maybe. Common Sense Debt? Absolutely.

The sea of Covidian nonsense is bottomless.

J. Edward Les, MD
7 min readNov 22, 2022

Common sense is like deodorant: those who need it the most never use it.

Anonymous

“Everyone knows” that Elon Musk is killing Twitter.

The fingers of journalists the world over are itching to bang out this headline:

TWITTER IS DEAD!

I half-expected to wake this morning to those words emblazoned in 100-point font across the front page of some major newspaper desperately trying to stay relevant in this digital age by scooping its competitors.

But the headline would almost certainly be wrong, in the same way as The Chicago Tribune’s infamous 1948 declaration that “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN”.

“Everyone knew” that Thomas Dewey, the Republican presidential nominee that year, would unseat President Harry Truman. So The Tribune jumped the gun, fired up the printing presses while the votes were still being counted, and dispersed 150,000 copies of a morning edition announcing Truman’s ouster.

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J. Edward Les, MD

Pediatric emergency physician. Former veterinarian. Father. Writer. Cancer survivor.