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    1. Kelsey Piper‏Verified account @KelseyTuoc 26 Mar 2020

      The United States has more confirmed coronavirus cases than anyone in the world. Here's how we got here:https://www.vox.com/2020/3/26/21194153/us-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-world …

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    2. Kelsey Piper‏Verified account @KelseyTuoc 26 Mar 2020

      One of the biggest questions I grappled with in this piece: we know how our govt could have done better. more testing, less lying, better preparation, learning from other countries. They failed us. But how could the rest of us have done better?

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    3. Kelsey Piper‏Verified account @KelseyTuoc 26 Mar 2020

      It is very obvious in hindsight that the CDC requirements for testing -- which are public and online -- made it impossible to tell whether the virus was spreading in the US. What if they'd been challenged more on that?

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      Kelsey Piper‏Verified account @KelseyTuoc 26 Mar 2020

      One thing I've struggled with personally - I told my family in early February that we should expect the virus to hit here and should buy what we'd need and plan to soon stop leaving our home. I wasn't that direct in a public article for three more weeks. Why not?

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        2. Kelsey Piper‏Verified account @KelseyTuoc 26 Mar 2020

          I didn't want to sound alarmist. I didn't want to step out ahead of public health officials, who were still telling us that the risk was low. I wanted to tell readers what scientists were saying, and they too were trying not to sound alarmist. I don't want to imply I was silent.

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        3. Kelsey Piper‏Verified account @KelseyTuoc 26 Mar 2020

          I argued that we shouldn't scold people who were worried about the coronavirus. I said we were underprepared for pandemics. I said there'd be a bad one someday, even if this wasn't it.

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        4. Kelsey Piper‏Verified account @KelseyTuoc 26 Mar 2020

          In early Feb I said covid-19 probably wouldn't kill tens of millions, and in late Feb I issued a correction in Future Perfect's newsletter. It absolutely might kill tens of millions, I said.

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        5. Kelsey Piper‏Verified account @KelseyTuoc 26 Mar 2020

          Kelsey Piper Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          But despite getting some calls right pretty early, @zeynep's criticism here felt pretty true to me:https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1242426243909332993 …

          Kelsey Piper added,

          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
          We wasted February and the failure wasn't just from the administration. Many in media, too, fueled the complacency. Why? Because we don't know how to think about complex systems—something we must learn to get through this. I explain how. New piece from me. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/03/what-really-doomed-americas-coronavirus-response/608596/ … pic.twitter.com/MBdkBqvnPs
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        6. Kelsey Piper‏Verified account @KelseyTuoc 26 Mar 2020

          We desperately needed some institution that would seriously pursue the hypothesis our government was incompetent and wrong or lying. We desperately needed more skepticism brought to bear on every published procedure or number.

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        7. Kelsey Piper‏Verified account @KelseyTuoc 26 Mar 2020

          I thought I was a cynic and I was not cynical enough to guess the scope of the mistakes we were making here, not in time to write anything that would've changed them.

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        8. Kelsey Piper‏Verified account @KelseyTuoc 26 Mar 2020

          And I deeply regret not telling my readers sooner what I told my family. I have no idea if you would have believed me, but you deserved to know, and I wish that when the government dropped this ball more people had been there to pick it up.

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        9. Kelsey Piper‏Verified account @KelseyTuoc 26 Mar 2020

          Man, my original plan for this tweet thread was a joke about America's status as #1 for coronavirus cases and how, as the president promised, I'm tired of winning. But it's hard for even very morbid humor to survive a straight look back at the last two months.

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        2.  🎀 sonya supposedly  🤖‏ @sonyasupposedly 27 Mar 2020
          Replying to @KelseyTuoc

          > I wasn't that direct in a public article for three more weeks. Why not? the culture of Vox and the derision expressed by your coworkers toward people who were vocally concerned? idk seems like that could have been a factor

          6 replies 8 retweets 235 likes
        3. You and 52 others‏ @bahstgwamt 27 Mar 2020
          Replying to @sonyasupposedly @KelseyTuoc

          Yeah, I think Vox's culture of outspoken derision of expertise and in particular "tech people", as well as pathological lack of concern for truth, may have corrupted Kelsey

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