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Jackfruit from the Internet. "Ein Tier, das nur in der Gesellschaft sich vereinzeln kann." - Marx "Blam[es] on his boots the faults of his feet." - Beckett

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 Mar 2020

      Hey, could someone from @Twitter please try to purge the mask-seller bots that are appearing in response to this? As the article points out, it really sucks but here we are and the health care workers desparately need these masks more. @safety @delbius

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 Mar 2020

      Also, everyone who wrote such articles, please rethink the harm of this message. The weird claim that people in Asian countries (where this pandemic is much more under control) with the deep experience of SARS wore masks out of superstition is part of the reason we are here.pic.twitter.com/vcOnmTZtZT

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 Mar 2020

      New paper: Hong Kong has not only contained COVID-19 for the moment, they've drastically reduced flu rates with social distancing, hygiene and near universal mask wearing. (Note: their government is unpopular and wasn't on board. The people acted anyway.) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.12.20034660v1 …pic.twitter.com/HZq3urSffP

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 Mar 2020

      Taiwan also quickly ramped up domestic production of masks and had a sensible plan to curb hoarding while ensuring access. Along with other sensible and non-draconian measures, they also contained COVID-19 for the moment despite a lot of travel with China. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/16/taiwan-china-fear-coronavirus-success/ …pic.twitter.com/vRq7FzaKH8

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted James Tang  🍎

      This is another important point. The "flatten-the-curve" urgency will eventually lead to "life must go on while we wait for vaccines/herd-immunity" and some form of mask-wearing may well be necessary for the transition.https://twitter.com/James69888/status/1240026391195729920 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      James Tang  🍎 @James69888
      Replying to @GiaTashaTomasso @thrasherxy @zeynep
      True, but this may go on for more than a year. We will need masks sooner or later.
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 Mar 2020

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      Yep. That's why we can't just say "wear masks only if you're sick." Besides the fact that we're not testing enough so people can't know if they're sick, and that many can be infectious without any symptomps, it just creates a stigma around wearing a mask. https://twitter.com/NathanWomack_/status/1240071568421609473 …

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Scott Gottlieb, MD

      Please read this whole thread. We are eventually going to have to release people from lockdown, and universal mask wearing (not N95, but surgical masks) is one way to do it with less harm.https://twitter.com/scottgottliebmd/status/1240240377052958720 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Scott Gottlieb, MDVerified account @ScottGottliebMD
      THREAD: If the concern is that asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic younger Americans (millennials) are continuing to spread #Coronavirus because they don't heed warnings, you could require anyone between certain ages to wear a procedure mask when they go out. 1/n
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Mar 2020

      Folks don't @ me BUT do it: arrange locally to allow people to donate N95 masks to hospitals, maybe exchange with surgical masks. Hospitals are out of N95s; CDC is telling them to use surgical masks instead; people are sitting on N95s but hearing some willing to donate/exchange.

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted

      Washington Post published another masks are superstition oped, so I’ll just put this here instead. https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1241598924516986881 …

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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Pinboard

      The tragedy of this kind of top down misinformation is when we are done with the shortage how are they going to tell everybody to mask up? As they have to if we are to get through this? (Folks don’t hoard and donate N95s now).https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/1241628429369270272 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

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      Washington Post still publishing headlines about how masks don't help, as if they were a bizarre superstition and not part of an effective intervention in the only countries that have gotten coronavirus under control. Source here is a psychology professor who writes about success pic.twitter.com/IMvBzOeCzk
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      JF‏ @jackfruitstaken 23 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep

      Amusingly it's the official 'duck and cover' handwashing advice that's really magical thinking. It's airborne.

      9:25 AM - 23 Mar 2020
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