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I work @Yale focusing on operations research/epidemiology for infectious disease. In the real world: been an AIDS activist for ~30 yrs. Assoc. Prof YSPH.

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    Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

    So, I think @Yascha_Mounk article in @TheAtlantic is some ways a needed cry for help, of despair, but it starts to 'both sides' responsibility for the #COVID19 epidemic in the US, which I think is unfortunate and unhelpful. 1/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/virus-will-win/612946/ …

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      2. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        The uniquely deadly American path on #COVID19 was set early. @GYamey and I wrote about this in late April. First, WHO, which deserves some criticism of its response said this on January 23rd: 2/https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1643 …

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      3. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        “Be prepared,” WHO said, “for containment, including active surveillance, early detection, isolation and case management, contact tracing and prevention of onward spread." Some countries acted. WE DID NOT. 3/

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      4. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        .@GYamey & Dean Jamison detail this further here. I think some writers are frankly "bored" of this founding narrative. But @realDonaldTrump's actions led the virus to flourish across the US, seeding itself in every corner of our country. 4/https://time.com/5850680/u-s-response-covid-19-worse-than-chinas/ …

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      5. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        Because all public health is local in some ways, some of the blame has to go to mayors and governors. Let's start with NYC, where I lived for many years. 5/

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      6. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        I was getting calls from panicked colleagues early on. @NYCMayor ignored the advice of @NYCHealthCommr for too long, with assurances from @DrKatzNYCHH that NYC had enough hospital capacity to handle a 'surge,' etc. The story gets told here: 6/https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/03/28/de-blasios-coronavirus-crisis-1269480 …

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      7. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        And here. 7/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/nyregion/coronavirus-de-blasio-mitchell-katz.html …

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      8. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        And it is not until April (April, folks!) that the laggard governors in Florida, Georgia and Mississippi finally shutdown their states. 8/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opinion/coronavirus-desantis-trump.html …

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      9. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        This is where @Yascha_Mounk's insistence that "everybody" failed, there is enough responsibility to go around starts to look like revisionist history. 9/

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      10. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        Let say it all together, in unison. The federal response to the pandemic was and is a shit-show, while the state and local responses were just terrible in some places and yes, good in others, but these founding events set us on our path. 10/

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      11. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        Now let's talk about re-opening. If the early events seeded #SARSCoV2 in every nook and cranny of this country, the reopening were the gasoline on the fire. Many public health experts were freaking out in early May about the rush to re-open. 11/https://www.npr.org/2020/05/09/853052174/public-health-experts-say-many-states-are-opening-too-soon-to-do-so-safely …

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      12. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        And though @Yascha_Mounk talks about Fox News' current downplaying of risks, he doesn't really articulate the role of the network, its amplification of @realDonaldTrump's just batshit crazy pronouncements from the start and real risks this created. 12/https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-is-downplaying-the-coronavirus-to-more-vulnerable-audience-2020-2 …

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      13. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        The Fox New phenomenon was so important that people started studying it. 13/ https://www.npr.org/local/309/2020/05/04/849109486/study-finds-more-c-o-v-i-d-19-cases-among-viewers-of-fox-news-host-who-downplayed-pandemic …

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      14. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        Yet, Americans showed tremendous generosity & solidarity in social distancing, but we NEVER provided them with the support they needed to weather the storm, keep it up. We left people Alone Against the Virus as @akapczynski and I wrote in early March. 14/https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-science-nature/amy-kapczynski-gregg-gonsalves-alone-against-virus …

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      15. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        .@Yascha_Mounk thinks "we were on the brink of doing something incredible," pointing to this generosity, solidarity of "many ordinary citizens who lived up to their moral responsibility in an extraordinary moment." 15/

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      16. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        But what @Yascha_Mounk doesn't see or acknowledge is that the die was cast this winter. If many of us were hunkering down then, our leaders told us not to worry, and too many of us waited too long or never were able to go to ground at the peak of the pandemic in early spring. 16/

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      17. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        I'd ask @Yascha_Mounk to think what if #JacindaArdern #AngelaMerkel or any of a dozen other leaders who rallied their countries to a more effective, comprehensive response, was at the helm in the US. 17/https://www.vox.com/2020/5/21/21263766/coronavirus-women-leaders-germany-new-zealand-taiwan-merkel …

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      18. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        “The coronavirus is currently dramatically changing our lives...Our understanding of normality, of public life, of social togetherness; all this is being tested as never before..." 18/ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/angela-merkel-nails-coronavirus-speech-unlike-trump.html …

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      19. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        “I firmly believe that we will manage this task if all citizens see it as their task,” Merkel said. “This is serious. Take it seriously.” 19/https://carnegieeurope.eu/2020/03/24/why-merkel-s-coronavirus-address-matters-pub-81357 …

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      20. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        So, as hard as many of us all tried to stop the virus early on, we never got to the place were we had a truly, national response, a shutdown strong enough, with policies in place to cushion its impact like Denmark and others put into effect. 20/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/denmark-freezing-its-economy-should-us/608533/ …

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      21. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        So, no, @Yascha_Mounk we were not on the cusp of something incredible, not through any fault of our own, as ordinary Americans, but because of the folly, ignorance, malign narcissism of our leaders, who worked against us at every step. Full stop. 21/

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      22. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        Even China where a totalitarian government can force a severe shutdown is seeing a resurgence of cases in some spots, our piecemeal, too little, too late response set us up for this sustained plateau of infections, deaths. 22/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/world/coronavirus-usa-world.html …

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      23. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        Now I want to talk about us in public health, to us in public health. I am not interested in setting us up as heroes, but here I think @Yascha_Mounk gets it wrong too. 23/

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      24. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        So, many of us sounded the alarm about @CDCDirector back around the time of his appointment. 24/https://www.poz.com/article/amid-criticism-hiv-researcher-robert-redfield-named-director-cdc …

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      25. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        We knew then and we knew this winter that this man wouldn't rise to a challenge, he didn't have the experience or skills, had questionable judgment, but more importantly was too beholden to the @WhiteHouse and @VP to ever tell them bad news. 25/

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      26. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        We heard a few times from the talented line staff at @CDCgov, people like @DrNancyM_CDC, but the entire agency was sidelined early on. 26/https://www.cjr.org/analysis/cdc-pandemic-transparency-comment-access.php …

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      27. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        And yes, the rollout of #COVID19 testing in the US was as disaster aided by the bungling at the @US_FDA. 27/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/03/coronavirus-cdc-test-kits-public-health-labs/?arc404=true …

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      28. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        Should people of good conscience have resigned during this period, scientists at @CDCgov @NIH? "I know, but what do you want me to do? I mean, seriously Jon, let’s get real, what do you want me to do?" 28/https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/i-m-going-keep-pushing-anthony-fauci-tries-make-white-house-listen-facts-pandemic …

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      29. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        So to @Yascha_Mounk: there is a clear history here for people to see and no, it's not all experts and institutions that failed. In fact, by saying it's "everyone," of us, it's just saying "no one", no individual(s) is (are) responsible. The general claim obscures the truth. 29/

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      30. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        So, what do we do now? It was clear as all states re-opened that the "shutdowns" were over for good. This is from May 3rd in Atlanta. 30/https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/piedmont-park-other-metro-parks-crowded-after-shelter-in-place-order-expires/WUPMKZSBLBB3JADU6UMGCBK3RU/ …

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      31. Gregg Gonsalves‏Verified account @gregggonsalves 14 Jun 2020

        This is why public health folks were panicking then. It's hard to put the genie back in the bottle once it's out. 31/

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