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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 6 Mar 2020

    zeynep tufekci Retweeted SXSW

    SxSW is cancelled. To try to understand what it took for China to slow the spread after they covered up and delayed for weeks, imagine closing down practically the whole country. It will take two, three months of such drastic action to contain it. We’re now in similar denial.https://twitter.com/sxsw/status/1236048680337182724 …

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    An Update on SXSW 2020. Please read our full statement here: https://www.sxsw.com/2020-event-update/ … pic.twitter.com/ouJPKM9GNy
    2:17 PM - 6 Mar 2020
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      1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 6 Mar 2020

        A doctor in the UNC system told me today that pretty much every ICU bed is already taken—without any known coronavirus cases. That, more than the fatality rate alone, is the crisis. In some places, 10% of COVID-19 victims require ICU beds to survive. We have no such capacity.

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      1. this isn't what I ordered‏ @KissMyKohlrabi 6 Mar 2020
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        I was shocked but more in a 'whoa, like grownups or something' kind of way. Our local government is saying we have 'nothing to worry about' even though one case is a churchgoer at a church that was also a polling station. Sure.

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      2. Madam I'm Adam‏ @FinalFenwayFict 6 Mar 2020
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        Cancelling #SXSW2020 may or may not have made sense, but I hope it's not indicative of a panicked response to #COVD19. Fear remains the deadliest virus, and there's no vaccine for it. We need to remain calm and try our best to carry on.

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      3. Emily Abell‏ @emilyabell 7 Mar 2020
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        Precautions are not panic, they are well established, studied and documented protocols that properly executed will save lives and make this *sightly* less of a nightmare for our healthcare folks. Feeling brave doesn't increase our PPE supplies or hospital beds I'm afraid.

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      1. Emma Scott  🦋‏ @EmmaS_writes 6 Mar 2020
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        This. Without being reactionary or trying to cause a panic we might need to honestly shut it all down. Two weeks, everyone stay put, so that the CDC and health community can get a head start. Or catch up.

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      1. #MMT: MoralMoneyTime‏ @samvega 6 Mar 2020
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        Sad, but good. Parenthetically, in this statement, "the situation evolved rapidly" means "<expletives> hit the most rapidly spinning wheels hard and heavily"

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      1. Patrick Heemstra‏ @patrick23dingen 6 Mar 2020
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        Patrick Heemstra Retweeted Reuters

        Meanwhile in my city/country...https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1235631383911030784?s=19 …

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        Dutch, fearing coronavirus, brace for return of 900 students from Italian Alps https://reut.rs/32V1aTm  pic.twitter.com/wX7p4Jjbv1
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      1.  🐗 Heard FC, aka Hoary-Throated Barwing‏ @HeardFC 6 Mar 2020
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        Given Austin’s tech traffic with San Francisco and Seattle, I wonder if COVID19 could be there already. 40,000 undergrads leaving/coming back from spring break this month probably ups the odds. And SXSW is so many people from multiple continents in tight quarters. Seems risky.

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      1. Ronnie Allman‏ @ImTheDirector 6 Mar 2020
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        http://chng.it/nkYj94jpMM 

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      1. Deepak Kumar (दीपक)  😷 💉‏ @bmcdeepak 6 Mar 2020
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        #SIGCSE_TS #SIGCSE2020

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