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    1. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 26 Mar 2020

      I think the critique of a story I wrote in this @intelligencer essay is basically correct. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/why-was-it-so-hard-to-raise-the-alarm-on-coronavirus.html …pic.twitter.com/jqwSdC8aqE

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    2. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 26 Mar 2020

      The piece made sense on Planet A, where a pandemic was not bearing down on us, but not on Planet B, where we all now live. It was right in the particulars and wrong on the big picture. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/01/china-coronavirus-twitter/605644/ …

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    3. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 26 Mar 2020

      In Jan, most experts were not willing to say the scary parts out loud. To be fair, there was a lot uncertainty about the virus. I saw a lot of contextless videos and other bits on social media . Consuming a lot of those *is* a bad way of informing yourself about the outbreak.

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    4. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 26 Mar 2020

      On the other hand, the downside of not being alarmed enough were huge. It seems to me that most public health officials thought their messages were landing in a panicked America that needed to be calmed down.

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    5. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 26 Mar 2020

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      But the reverse was true! Almost no one was paying any attention to COVID-19 at all. And for many of those who were, it was as an economic phenomenon. Here’s where my mind was:https://twitter.com/alexismadrigal/status/1242655356322369536?s=20 …

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      I’ve been thinking a lot about being wrong recently. Like: in January and most of February, I saw COVID-19 as largely a problem for China and its government and the global supply chain. Why couldn’t I see what should have been obvious, that the virus was here (everywhere)?
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    6. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 26 Mar 2020

      For me, the full horror emerged with the March 2 genomic work that indicated the virus was not only here, but circulating widely in at least Seattle (and now we know, many other places). https://bedford.io/blog/ncov-cryptic-transmission/ …

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    7. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 26 Mar 2020

      It broke upon me what was going to happen, and since then, I’ve been focused solely on this virus. I wish I’d seen the possibility of Planet B earlier and revised my frame of reference completely in late January.

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    8. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 26 Mar 2020

      I’m not self-flagellating for fun, but because it’s important to see how people came to an understanding that the world had changed and that we were living on Planet B. Because, still, not everyone is here yet.

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Mar 2020
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      I made this exact point yesterday. Misinformation research is fighting last war. (Not that there isn't a lot of misinformation on social media and it will get worse. But it's like the early Arab Spring; social media is better than a lot of trad media)https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1242858106226343937 …

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      I mean the tweet in question was sensationalist, but it was less wrong compared to a lot of traditional media at the time. It didn’t even get really the facts wrong it was just sensationalist. People who listened to it probably fared better than those who followed regular media.
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Mar 2020
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      That said, just like the Arab Spring and the printing press, early path/later path will likely diverge but how exactly? Not hundred percent sure but thinking a lot about this right now. We gotta adjust quickly.

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