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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    2. 2 pillows is enough  🌉  🚱‏ @notkavi 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @MattBors @Jerbivore

      I was thinking this too, but @zeynep makes a convincing case that seems to cite credible scientific evidence. I'd like to see a formal response from someone at who tbh

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    3. 2 pillows is enough  🌉  🚱‏ @notkavi 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @notkavi @MattBors and

      2 pillows is enough  🌉  🚱 Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1239903421970501640?s=19 …

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      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      For the @nytimes, I wrote about why health authorities telling people they didn't need masks, and, besides they wouldn't wear them right, misfired and maybe even fueled hoarding. There will be many painful truths, and we need to learn to talk about them. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-masks.html … pic.twitter.com/vBhEbS2rJk
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    4. Jerb  ⚒️ 🔬 ⚒️‏ @Jerbivore 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @notkavi @kavikavigupta and

      The difference with washing hands wrong is that when you wear masks you often keep touching your face *more* and a lot of folks don’t recognize how to keep the PPE from getting infected. If you contaminate a mask and put it right against your face then it’s a lot worse.

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @Jerbivore @kavikavigupta @MattBors

      You're making stuff up, literally. We have tons of field evidence. I know, official sources also say stuff like this, but this claim just doesn't have any evidence among the population. There is evidence of incorrect doffing being a source of infection.. in medical setting.

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    6. Jerb  ⚒️ 🔬 ⚒️‏ @Jerbivore 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @kavikavigupta @MattBors

      Defensive much? This is literally what experts have been saying, so you don’t have to accuse *me* of making stuff up when I respond to a point of disanalogy in the above screenshot. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/coronavirus-n95-face-masks.amp.html …pic.twitter.com/pWcpte7ZOf

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @Jerbivore @kavikavigupta @MattBors

      Sorry, you are right that it's understandable—experts are misinforming us. But there really isn't any evidence of harm to mask use among the population. It doesn't even make sense. So your hand is infected and then you adjust your mask and what? Still better than no mask.

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    8. Jerb  ⚒️ 🔬 ⚒️‏ @Jerbivore 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @kavikavigupta @MattBors

      I mean it does make sense, in that if you contaminate something and hold it against your face for an extended period of time it is definitely worse than not holding a contaminating thing against your face.

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @Jerbivore @kavikavigupta @MattBors

      So how is it contaminated? Option one, you're already infected but don't know it. In which case, everyone should wear masks. Option two, your hand touched something infected and then you adjusted your mask. Much better than touching face directly. Then everyone should wear masks.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @Jerbivore and

      It really doesn't make sense. We're genuinely in Saddam had WMD territory here. It pains me to say this about the WHO, it really does.

      7:24 AM - 27 Mar 2020
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        1. 2 pillows is enough  🌉  🚱‏ @notkavi 27 Mar 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @Jerbivore @MattBors

          See my question is as someone who knows nothing about bio, this comes down to trust, and I while the case you make makes sense, I'd prefer if somehow you could demonstrate that your view is scientific consensus before agreeing that the WHO lied to the world

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