I should specify that I’m referring to the public health authorities in the United States and our public intellectuals, not the medical system writ large, let alone the many people in East Asia who looked at this policy with incredulity
Upstream, in the insinuation in the original tweet that Zeynep has been some idea doula for the inarticulate medical experts right on the substance but bad at people skills and expository writing
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I feel like this is a very insulting way of saying “Zeynep collaborated with domain experts to conduct a literature review that advanced the idea that masks were effective in preventing the transmission of COVID-19 and used her NYT/Atlantic platform to promote this message.”
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You misunderstood what
@mattyglesias meant by "amateur mass comms"--as he suggests in the follow-up tweet, he means the number of experts second-guessing things like "if we say masks increase safety, will that reduce social distancing/reduce supply" etcThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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