Yes! Offering to shop for your elderly relatives or neighbors is a great thing to do right now. It may need to be something to organize everywhere. This coronavirus is mild for young and healthy people but strikingly dangerous for the elderly or ill folks.https://twitter.com/avizenilman/status/1234585552294498304 …
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Reminder that Chinese authorities knew there was human-to-human transmission in December when there were very few cases. They could have spared the whole world. Instead they punished whistleblower doctors & organized mass outdoor events till late January. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/ …pic.twitter.com/fQV7rZTORN
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Faced with the outbreak because of their own corruption and authoritarianism, Chinese authorities then imposed a draconian quarantine. Through massive suffering, hundreds of millions of Chinese people gifted us time to prepare. Then we blew that threw incompetence and corruption.
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Objective descriptions of what happened and what works are okay but nobody should be praising the Chinese government for the very pandemic they unleashed on the world. (They even knew dangers of wet/wildlife markets and let them be). Chinese medical workers though: true heroes.
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This would have been contained in Dec/Jan had Chinese authorities prioritized the health of their own citizens and the world rather than covering up the facts and punishing the medical workers who tried to warn us—some of them died from the virus. Leaders now want praise. Nope.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Matt McCarthy
That’s right. Cat is out of the bag. We probably will not contain this in the US but we can mitigate. We have to do what we can to slow spread in order to preserve hospital capacity for the elderly and other vulnerable populations. But it’s here.https://twitter.com/drmattmccarthy/status/1234833720424697862 …
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I’m seeing this myself in many articles—even in articles about not hoarding masks. Is there no way for
@Google to get a handle on this? Everything is covered in price-gouging N95 mask ads. Google is making money but this isn’t good. https://twitter.com/karenhanson/status/1234864257839370242 …zeynep tufekci added,
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Health professionals really need to stop telling people not to buy masks because they won't know how to wear them correctly. Can't think of a message more precisely designed to encourage hoarding. Folks, don't hoard them because there is a severe mask shortage for health workers.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Josh Michaud
Reminder that there is a lot of historical and current evidence that social distancing works. Stay home as much as you can; if you are an employer allow people to work from home as much as possible. It's how we can protect people in high-risk categories.https://twitter.com/joshmich/status/1235906489921007616 …
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Confirmed cases two weeks ago: Italy 62, Hong Kong 69, Taiwan 26, Iran 28. Hong Kong and Taiwan acted early with social distancing, hygiene, closures and near universal mask wearing. Their numbers hardly budged. Italy and Iran each have ~6000 cases and are locking down millions.pic.twitter.com/F63zPIHQnI
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Carl Quintanilla
What's happening now in Italy is that they have run out of hospital capacity. That will mean death rates will go up, not just from the coronavirus but from all other illnesses as well. We look about two weeks behind this point in big population centers.https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1237507100064047104 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
All the comparisons with the flu have been terribly damaging and they did not just come from Trump supporters. One Washington Post headline mocked the alarm with "Get a grippe, America." Journalists compared contagion rates as if that mattered much. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1232352734990520331 …?
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep"We get the flu every year." You know what will happen if we hit COVID-19 unprepared? More people will die of... the flu. And everything else. On top of COVID-19. We have only so many hospital beds, ventilators, ICUs. To be ready means we are ready to flatten the curve—buy time.Show this thread3 replies 40 retweets 141 likesShow this thread -
To people asking for an update to my February article: besides your own social-distancing and hygiene, one great thing to do is to help elderly or vulnerable folks stay home. If you can shop for them, do their chores, drop food... Next, help everyone else stay home or stay away.
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