Dude says if I were so smart, I would have written all this before but now I'm just signaling. So I wrote an article for Scientific American explaining all this in February—likely one of the first if not first instance of "flatting the curve" explained in a traditional outlet.https://twitter.com/jmrphy/status/1242961435665125376 …
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I have threads going back to early January explaining all this (getting more desparate into February) and yeah calling for all that. I wrote all that in long-form too back then. I guess I'm lacking something that makes me credible but what? Hmmm.
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@jmrphy I'll go find my January threads for you later but gotta go live on@chrislhayes show soon. I also just wrote an op-ed for the NYT challenging both CDC and the WHO on the science of masks, and I'm right. I'll get back to this later, mr. a day-late and a dollar-short.11 replies 18 retweets 194 likesShow this thread -
But everything in that
@theAtlantic article is stuff I have been actively writing about for months in public venues. I can't solve chips on other people's shoulders. (Always the dilemma: either I produce receipts, which I find annoying, or some dude who can't google snarks.)6 replies 19 retweets 173 likesShow this thread -
Anyway, thanks everyone for the nice feedback for
#inners. I've done interviews from abroad, on shaky connections, from middle of protests, tear gas whizzing past and all, but first time I did TV from home. It was terrifying! I was just hoping not to become a meme.5 replies 3 retweets 69 likesShow this thread -
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I'm just going to leave a few threads here and in the next tweet, and then some of my long-form work on this in the tweet after that. And then I'm done here. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1220060968299966464 … https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1226993681116299265 … https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1223642155949993986 …https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1228707198265634818 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepAnother thread on why flu comparisons are so misguided. Seasonal flu/pneumonia has a 0.014% death rate in the US, and still is a huge burden. SARS had a 10% fatality rate. A significant number of COVID-19 patients need hospitalization to survive. Where do you put millions? https://twitter.com/tony_zy/status/1229070516285329408 …Show this thread1 reply 4 retweets 32 likesShow this thread
Okay I'm bored with this. @jmrphy says he left academia to research and teach—too bad he didn't learn to google before leaving. Wish him the best as he hopefully learns! https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/ … and https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/03/what-really-doomed-americas-coronavirus-response/608596/ … and https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-masks.html … andhttps://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/preparing-for-coronavirus-to-strike-the-u-s/ …
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