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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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
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/ …
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.
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.
Alexis C. Madrigal Retweeted Alexis C. Madrigal
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 …
Alexis C. Madrigal added,
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/ …
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.
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.
zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
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 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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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