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Reminder that @aetiology, an epidemiologist heading a lab at Kent State University, claimed in March that wearing a mask could *increase* your risk of contracting COVID. She later deleted those tweets. I assumed, wrongly, that she'd have the professional integrity not to do that.https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1244077211285479424 …
Rest assured that I will never forget this, and as my following continues to grow I'll remind everyone that Dr. Tara C. Smith tried — at the burgeoning of a lethal pandemic — to convince people to not take basic, cheap precautions to protect themselves.
Sure, but who the hell is she? Fauci did the same, and everyone is heroizing him, so I think there's more value in pointing out his lies.
She's the head of a lab at the university where she teaches, and she came into my own thread to give my followers misinformation that endangered themselves and the people around them.
Give em hell, lassie!
Public Health has a lot to answer for. @zeynep is a great resource for the current failure, that of sharing how and where transmission is actually occurring. Indoors through aerosolized droplets. We won’t solve this problem until we can actually inform people what is happening.
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The level of shamelessness while simultaneously shaming other constantly in the ID/epi community is profoundly disturbing. It’s hard to overstate how important it is that that group remain trustworthy and well...
This deserves to be remembered, but I hope it doesn't distract you from your regularly scheduled hot takes
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