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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. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @MattBors

      It really is actually. Tons of evidence for universal mask usage among population and tons of evidence for even selective mask usage protecting the wearer/community. It's weird but "the WHO is of course right internet rando with finger swipe is an idiot" doesn't work here.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Mar 2020
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      See this thread, but there is an enormous amount of evidence at this point, and yes, WHO is so wrong that the internet rando with a touchscreen can spot it. It's a respiratory disease with asymptomatic spread. WHO is basically telling us Saddam has WMD.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1243312116809052172 …

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      They got together in March!They all washed their hands. They sat apart. Nobody had symptoms. They didn’t wear masks. It’s a respiratory disease with asymptomatic spread. Our denial here is increasingly at anti-vaxer level. https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1243308477327405056 …
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @BeWaterInHK @MattBors

      Of course. Every country that had a measure of success defies the WHO nonsense and mandates mask wearing, either legally or culturally. That's why the rando with the finger chart works (China is the only one outside the finger chart because of initial screwup but it also works).

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    6. Jonn Kmech‏ @JonnKmech 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @BeWaterInHK @MattBors

      Your logic is bad here. First, do you have any evidence mask wearing was significantly higher other than “it seemed like it was”, and second, you don’t think there were other significant factors about differences in those countries’ responses?

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @JonnKmech @BeWaterInHK @MattBors

      Yes, duh to first. Google is your friend! The other is a non-sequitur.

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    8. Jonn Kmech‏ @JonnKmech 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @BeWaterInHK @MattBors

      You’re really mixing correlation and causation there, then, on both points.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @JonnKmech @BeWaterInHK @MattBors

      Lol. Now this is a case of an Internet rando who thinks they sound smart but aren’t. I am not mixing correlation and causation, thank you. There are decades of studies.

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        2. Jonn Kmech‏ @JonnKmech 27 Mar 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @BeWaterInHK @MattBors

          As opposed to a journalist who doesn’t specialize in health at all claiming they know what’s better for public health than the WHO? What’s your rational explanation for why they’d recommend against masks if it was indeed best practice and evidence-based?

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Mar 2020
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          See this thread, starting with my NYT op-ed. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1243547033430089730 … Sometimes, it's the top authority that's wrong and spreading misinformation. (Just like how Saddam didn't have WMDs.) Yes, it makes the world messy and very hard to judge.

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          Germany's medical association is on board with universal mask wearing. It is perhaps the easiest tool with most bang for the buck we could deploy right now, today, in the United States. And yet we are drowning in top-down misinformation. #maskeauf https://twitter.com/RugeBoris/status/1243445606548455424 …
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