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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted verónica potes  💚

      Yes. Many of the discussion in February of R0 and CFR were misguided.The problem was never really about that, though of course those matter but within a systems context. That's why all the flu comparisons were so inappropriate that they weren't even wrong.https://twitter.com/veropotes/status/1242444351265034242 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      verónica potes  💚 @veropotes
      Tipping points,cascades and avalanches (few small changes end up triggering massive shifts),all examples of nonlinear dynamics in which the event doesn’t follow simple addition in its impacts—that’s why this coronavirus was never just about its R0 or CFR. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/03/what-really-doomed-americas-coronavirus-response/608596/ …
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Mar 2020

      One reason I highlight media failures in my article is that I watched with great frustration in February as people asked in local Facebook groups if they should travel—to Disneyland, to conferences—and decided to go as people shared these "worry about the flu, instead" articles.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Mar 2020

      Another reason I wrote this, even though I knew many in traditional media will not like it. The current messaging and discussion is still too simplistic and will not get us through all this. Stay home for few weeks isn't it. There are many trade-offs and complicated interactions.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      For example, discussions of herd immunity, when to go back to work and how, the next waves, prioritizing risks, etc. all have to be had. The stock market isn't a humane priority or reason but there will be painful trade-offs and we have to talk about them.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1242266044418404352 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Replying to @jbouie @geomblog
      The argument is so inhuman, so callous that’s it can’t really be considered on its merits. And yet, it also fails on its merits! The stock market isn’t going anywhere up when hospitals are so overrun that child mortality spikes up and people of all ages also start dying more.
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      By the way, here's my thread from January 29th about that NEJM paper mentioned in the article. More with similar findings came out right after that. That's what I mean, we wasted February. It was right there us but we kept hearing what about the flu.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1222662053329924098 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      So far, #nCoV2019 has some features more favorable than SARS (no super-spreaders identified yet etc.) BUT @NEJM paper says some have atypical presentation: gastro symptoms or mild clinical presentation. (SARS came with high fever). Translation: we need maybe millions of tests.😬
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      Thread from a month ago. 😢https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1232352734990520331 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      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.
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Mar 2020

      It's going to be like the 2016 election, isn't it? Many journalists did amazing reporting since, but there really hasn't been any systematic reckoning among traditional media and punditry about their own role in all of it. (They'll talk about the tech part, though). So with this.

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jay Rosen

      Yep. Lack of reflection among media and pundits that made all this so much worse is mindblowing. All of February, I watched people locally use those “what about the flu/travel bans don’t work/don’t overreact” articles to decide go on trips and conferences.https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1242647591990562816 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Jay RosenVerified account @jayrosen_nyu
      Replying to @zeynep
      Run-up to the Iraq War. Financial crisis in 2008. Election of 2016. No broad reckoning after any of them. Notice how after each of these collapses, there's a huge story to cover. So they move on.
      6 replies 58 retweets 233 likes
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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Amy Siskind  🏳️‍🌈

      Judging by the way everyone’s already ignoring how wrong and dangerously misleading so many liberal/traditional pundits/papers were up until early March, I say they will do fine. Every tribe is blind to themselves.https://twitter.com/amy_siskind/status/1242801225449562112 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Amy Siskind  🏳️‍🌈Verified account @Amy_Siskind
      There are a lot of people whose reputations will never recover from this era. “Fox's Brit Hume says it’s an “entirely reasonable viewpoint” to expect that grandparents would be willing to die to protect the economy.” https://www.mediamatters.org/brit-hume/foxs-brit-hume-says-its-entirely-reasonable-viewpoint-expect-grandparents-would-be …
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Mar 2020
      Replying to @mme_hardy

      No she doesn't. Please don't spread misinformation.

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        1. Madame Hardy‏ @mme_hardy 26 Mar 2020
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          I apologize. Deleting. (I should have checked.)

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