Neither @jimdao or @JBennet thought of fucking talking to an infectious disease epidemiologist about any of this before publishing this irresponsible garbage. 2/
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So we have two know-it-all columnists one op-ed and one in-house, and two greedy for the "edgy" take editors who decide to make a mess for everyone else to clean up. 3/
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We all know there are trade-offs in the epidemic response you irresponsible boobs. Did you really think that no one among the thousands of people doing infectious disease work has thought of these dilemmas that just occurred to you last week? 4/
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In the US, we've tested about 195,000 people total. In Germany, they test 100,000 a week according to a new article in
@Sciencemag the other day. Want to target our efforts? Tell me how we're going to do that when we have no idea where our epidemic is or how vast? 5/Show this thread -
Want "better data"--well perhaps we should take those non-existent tests and do a random sample of the entire US for a few weeks and then decide to act? As
@mlipsitch an actual real infectious disease epidemiologist has said we have more than enough information to act now. 6/Show this thread -
But sure boys of the
@NYTimes op-ed page who glory in the sound of your own voices, let's wait, try your expert advice as hospitals fill up up and down the East Coast. 7/Show this thread -
This is lazy thinking/editing, garbage hot takes from people who never had to bury dozens of their friends before during an epidemic. I tried for the sober scientific critique of the past 2 days of swill at the
@NYTimes op-ed page, but sorry, this is just too fucking much. 8/Show this thread -
Yes, social distancing is going to hurt lots of people, but also prevent lots of deaths. But instead of pitting one against the other you fucking geniuses, why not think about how to ameliorate the downstream economic damage rather than making an epidemic worse? 9/
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The Danes are going to support their citizens not with once-off $1200 checks but real income support, something
@gabriel_zucman has proposed here. We could create a Marshall Plan, a Public Works for Public Health plan for#coronvirus as your own ed board has suggested. 10/Show this thread -
But no, better to shoot from the hip, ask people who don't work in infectious diseases, are not economists nor epidemiologists to opine loudly about the stupidity of those in public health and the measures being promoted. 11/
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The
@DrDavidKatz and@tomfriedman articles are going to undermine public health efforts with a bunch of hot air, based on no evidence, no analysis full-stop. 12/Show this thread -
In the
@WhiteHouse we have@realDonaldTrump who botched the response to the epidemic,@NYTimes we have entitled upper-middle class men who know little more than the President does and like him, love to say what's on their minds. 13/Show this thread -
You should be ashamed of yourselves:
@DrDavidKatz@tomfriedman@jimdao &@JBennet. Rather than comprehend the limits of your own expertise, you've become a collective case study in the Dunning-Kruger effect, and have done tremendous damage. Congratulations. And good night. end/Show this thread -
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