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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted World Health Organization (WHO)

      Reminder that brave Wuhan doctors knew of human-to-human transmission in December, and put everything on the line to try to warn us. They were censored and punished. Some died. Unconscionably, Chinese authorities suppressed the info and WHO parroted their line into January.https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      World Health Organization (WHO)Verified account @WHO
      Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China🇨🇳. pic.twitter.com/Fnl5P877VG
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted

      Yes. Some of China's real journalists have risked everything and carried out investigations. Healthcare workers have been heroic from day one—some paying for it their lives. Conflating China's people with their government is the real racism. https://twitter.com/COVID2021/status/1240304406383509510 …

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Mar 2020

          Thanks for asking! There is no shortage of proof that Chinese authorities suppressed human-to-human transmission news until too late. Pic of official CCP publication about the doctors being arrested for telling the truth. (Pieces with details next tweet). https://twitter.com/blissteria/status/1240647160833720320 …pic.twitter.com/S3s9Ra2Vsk

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Mar 2020

          See a few articles (Can't fit all). First from China's brave real journalists. https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-02-03/in-depth-how-wuhan-lost-the-fight-to-contain-the-coronavirus-101510749.html …. (My piece is https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/ …). See https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-it-all-started-chinas-early-coronavirus-missteps-11583508932 … or https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html ….

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Mar 2020

          I STRONGLY object to calling the coronavirus "Wuhan virus" because what we should remember of Wuhan is the brave whistleblowers who tried to warn us, some of whom died. The Wuhan health care workers who put everything on the line and some died. The people who suffered so much.

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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Mar 2020

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted CrossedStaves

          We *should* hold our own government accountable without erasing the whistleblowers, real journalists and the people of China—because that's what erasing their regime's complicity does. If Chinese gov't had acted early, we might have avoided the pandemic.https://twitter.com/ratscoat/status/1240651702937751552 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

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          Which is bad, but it is important to remember that the current US Administration has suppressed testing and downplayed the virus nearly every step of the way. I don't say this as "whataboutism" but instead to address the right deflecting blame playing into xenophobic narratives.
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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Mar 2020

          Financial Times on how Taiwan warned WHO about human-to-human transmission by December. WHO parroted China's cover-up lie (no human-to-human transmission!) until China stopped covering up—too late to stop a pandemic. THIS COULD ALL HAVE BEEN AVOIDED. https://www.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644a-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6a68 …pic.twitter.com/0RH2MNtBxT

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        7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Mar 2020

          I'm sorry that the complex, terrible reality doesn't fit existing polarizations and good/bad schemas, but sooner we come to terms with the world as it is, the sooner—maybe, just maybe—we can think about the task of creating a institutions and a world order that can actually work.

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