When Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis used this phrase in an early August press conference, it went viral on social media. That phrase, “biomedical security state,” struck a chord in the media.
A few days later, a reporter from the Washington Post reached out to me. While looking into the phrase’s origins, he found that I had been the first to tweet out the words “biomedical security state” in October of 2020. I had continually used the term in my Twitter feed since then, and a few days before the press conference, a tweet thread of mine with the phrase went viral.
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