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Balaji
@balajis
Compiling a list of the official misinformation from press & state. - Flu is more serious - Travel bans are overreacting - Only Wuhan visitors at risk - Avoiding handshakes is paranoid - Virus is contained - Tests are available - Masks don't help What else?
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Balaji
@balajis
The reason this is important is: - people who made these mistakes haven't retracted - indeed, many have pretended they didn't happen - and are now pushing for censorship of "misinformation" But without social media, seems clear the US would have been even slower to act.
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Balaji
@balajis
Official misinformation appears to be international, across Western countries at least. Would appreciate more examples from Spain, Italy, etc before they get memory holed. We need to document this because the folks that failed are now pushing censorship.
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Michael Welling
@WellingMichael
#Spain 38 days ago February 14, 2020 Director of the Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies of the Ministry of Health. said; "In Spain we do not have COVID-19" and "the population must understand that there is no risk ..”
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