by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I don’t think many people appricate how rarely anything of note happens in my life. I spend most of my time struggling with developing and writing four novels and, for the most part, I live in oblivion.
So, it doesn’t take much to rattle my cage or to make my day, for that matter. Something as small as someone from Brooklyn doing some sort of due diligence on me by spending an hour on this site is enough to make me sit up and take notice. I mean, what the what?
Anyway, today, there was, minding my own business when this happened:
Bottom line:
— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) September 9, 2021
1. Delta is more contagious than earlier versions of the virus, causing a surge in cases.
2. Delta is not necessarily more severe. The bulk of the evidence suggests it's similar – maybe a little more severe, maybe a little less. https://t.co/kD3N1FKMcY
The New York Times retweeted my retweet of their tweet.
My first reaction is, lulz, it was all very random. They just picked me out of what they saw on their TweetDeck and that’s it. And, in fact, that’s the most logical explanation. Not a big deal. Nothing to think about beyond that.
Then, because I have a VERY active imagination, I start to game out other scenarios.
Hopeful
Someone who works at the paper has followed me using a burner account and they were giving me a hat tip.
Paranoid
They’re going to use my rantings on this site for some sort of take down of me and I’m going to get “canceled.”
But I think I’m way overthinking this. I think it’s all a lulz. While I like to think I’m exceptionally interesting and colorful, the truth in this situation is probably pretty prosaic: they just wanted to re-up the tweet and used my retweet to do it.
Nothing more interesting than that.
