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    1. Nate Silver‏Verified account @NateSilver538 26 Mar 2020

      Nate Silver Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      This is a silly critique. Blaming "pundit-world" for NYC's problems? Most of the data suggests that NYC residents were more alert to risks & doing voluntary social distancing sooner than most places. But voluntary is not enough. Mayor was slow to respond. Federal leaders slower.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1243217509882396674 …

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      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Look at the catastrophe unfolding in NYC. It will soon be perhaps the worst hit place globally, and it's not a coincidence that it's the center of exactly that kind of "what about the flu/don't panic" pundit-world/media. Yes it's hard to hear but this is not just a Trump failure. pic.twitter.com/5AJWK7evn4
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    2. Nate Silver‏Verified account @NateSilver538 26 Mar 2020

      NYC is dense. It's social. It has a lot of people who travel a lot from all around the world. Those may also have been factors—a lot more likely than "pundit-world". That said, the initial sparks that trigger outbreaks in some places but not others may be somewhat random.

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    3. Nate Silver‏Verified account @NateSilver538 26 Mar 2020

      I do **plenty** of media criticism when warranted and there are questions to ask about coronavirus coverage but if your take right now is "actually, this is the media's fault as much as the government's" then you should probably sit this story out.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @NateSilver538

      If you're blind to media's role in all this, you may want to sit this out. Nobody is comparing it to government's failures, so that's just silly. Of course the Federal failure is massive. Because of density and travel, NYC should have locked down the first, early February latest.

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @NateSilver538

      That we have a massive outbreak in NYC isn't some random seeding thing. NYC *was* going to be seeded, seeded early and repeatedly. It's a dense travel hub with dense public transportation and massive social life. Like Hong Kong! Which acted early. On their own. Doing way better.

      3 replies 7 retweets 136 likes
    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @NateSilver538

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      Hi Nate, you still haven’t corrected your gross misrepresentation of my position. I’m just gonna put a few receipts here on what it means for you to call on me to “sit this one out.” My NYT oped on masks.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1239903421970501640 …

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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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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Mar 2020
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      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      My February 27 article on flattening the curve. As far as I can tell, may be the first mainstream media article to explain the concept in the context of getting ready. (Many told me they got ready because of this.)https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1233107475433263104 …

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      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      I wrote a short, practical guide on why you should prepare for COVID-19 and how. Forget the doomsday talk and the "prepper" subculture with all its snake oil. You should prepare *now because it's the best thing you can do to help everyone else. Here's how: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/preparing-for-coronavirus-to-strike-the-u-s/ … pic.twitter.com/m1NmwQ5pBM
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Mar 2020
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      I will leave it as an exercise for you to find my many many threads, from January on, begging people especially in media to stop comparing it to the flow and explaining all the problems, and telling people that this was on the way.

      8:32 AM - 28 Mar 2020
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        1. Daniel Liatowitsch‏ @d_twit 28 Mar 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @NateSilver538

          Also the flu.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Mar 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @NateSilver538

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          And here’s my actual position that you misrepresented. I can’t argue with a strawman, but people can decide which one of us sitting this one out would make things better. (Not calling on you to sit it one out. Disagree, fine. But misrepresenting isn’t ok).https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1242426243909332993 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
          We wasted February and the failure wasn't just from the administration. Many in media, too, fueled the complacency. Why? Because we don't know how to think about complex systems—something we must learn to get through this. I explain how. New piece from me. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/03/what-really-doomed-americas-coronavirus-response/608596/ … pic.twitter.com/MBdkBqvnPs
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        3. Next up!! Georgia Run-Off!!!‏ @Sadiegirlcc 28 Mar 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @NateSilver538

          But you have provided no specifics and instead neve relied on a generalized NYC pundits and media critique. That’s not helpful and it’s not a convincing argument.

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