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Your Instagram Exposes You to Coronavirus Contagion
With the spreading outbreak, social media is taking social contagion to new extremes.
Photos of empty shelves in Australia spread around the world, on the news and on social media.
Photographer: Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images
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You may not have been exposed to the new coronavirus yet, but you’ve almost certainly been exposed to an adjacent contagion. Maybe you’ve even helped spread it.
It might be retweeting Australian complaints about supermarkets sold out of hand sanitizer. Liking Gwyneth Paltrow’s Instagram post of herself in a face mask. Scrolling agog through Facebook photos from a friend in Texas of long supermarket queues for water and paper towels.