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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Mar 2020

    zeynep tufekci Retweeted Stop-the-MAGAss-Reich

    To the heartless people complaining US might have sent some ventilators to China at the peak of their epidemic. You'd rather have people in China die of lack of ventilators when we weren't yet hit? Not just heartless but stupid because of the below. Ventilators should go to need.https://twitter.com/lumiere2016/status/1244323105272500224 …

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    Stop-the-MAGAss-Reich @lumiere2016
    Replying to @zeynep @DrDenaGrayson and 3 others
    Sending ventilators likely blunted/slowed the spread globally since it likely kept China's case from increasing by preventing collapse of their hospitals. What we should have done is to ramp up our own production at the same time.
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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Mar 2020

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

        I've never minced words about the culpability of the Chinese gov't. See thread below for some of my writings. But the idea it was wrong to send ventilators when they were desperately needed for the people of China is callous, opportunistic rage peddling.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1240304017407979525 …

        zeynep tufekci added,

        zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
        Reminder that brave Wuhan doctors knew of human-to-human transmission in December, and put everything on the line to try to warn us. They were censored and punished. Some died. Unconscionably, Chinese authorities suppressed the info and WHO parroted their line into January. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152 …
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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Mar 2020

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted brooklyn jaymes

        We're talking about ventilators. There is no shortage of things the administration is doing terribly wrong. Within countries and globally, ventilators need to move and go to peak need. They are not PPE. They can be reused, but are in short supply.https://twitter.com/brook_jaymes/status/1244326260073005056 …

        zeynep tufekci added,

        brooklyn jaymes @brook_jaymes
        Replying to @zeynep
        Be sure to tell the doctors and nurses who are dying treating patients that their complaints are just callous rage peddling. Shipments left on February 7th. Two weeks before virus hit here. It is not defensible to send away 18 tons of protective gear 2 wks before it hits here.
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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Mar 2020

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted Two Margarets

        Yeah, we are not lacking of things that were done terribly wrong by this administration.https://twitter.com/The2Margarets/status/1244327577319116800 …

        zeynep tufekci added,

        Two Margarets @The2Margarets
        Replying to @zeynep
        It’s not the generosity to other nations in need that angers me. I applaud that. It’s Trump’s concurrent denial of a problem here and his refusal to help various US states also in need.
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      5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Mar 2020

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted Neurotica Provocatrix

        I'm on the hold the government of China responsible for unleashing the pandemic in the first place camp. Their current misinformation campaign is disgusting. Check my thread above. It's still the right thing to send ventilators to peak epidemic places.https://twitter.com/TbBrame/status/1244327962972844032 …

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        Neurotica Provocatrix @TbBrame
        Replying to @ericgarland @zeynep and 3 others
        https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/coronavirus-pandemic-china-mask-mercantilism/ … Then turning around and reselling said supplies
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      6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Mar 2020

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      7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Mar 2020

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted eileen

        I am mad, too. Our lack of preparation is inexcusable. It’s also still true helping other countries contain their own epidemic is what we have to do to protect ourselves. I don’t think I’m soft on either government here. They both failed terribly.https://twitter.com/eileenserra/status/1244333119475314688 …

        zeynep tufekci added,

        eileen @eileenserra
        Replying to @zeynep
        People are mad because the administration knew last year that we were short on supplies. Why didn’t they start then to make enough PPE to shore up what was needed everywhere? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-outbreak.html …
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      2. Paul Cantrell‏ @inthehands 29 Mar 2020
        Replying to @zeynep

        The suggestion of the tweets I’ve seen has been more along the lines of “look, we got them to China that fast, so why is the admin holding out on the US?"

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      3. Michael‏ @mikeljnola 29 Mar 2020
        Replying to @inthehands @zeynep

        I don't know, I saw a ton of people calling it malicious murder of Americans because the administration knew what it was doing.

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      1. Tara in MA  😷 💉 💉 💉‏ @tara_stoddard 29 Mar 2020
        Replying to @zeynep

        It’s not that the US sent them to China that’s at issue. It’s that we sent them to China while failing to secure the supplies we needed to safeguard our own communities that’s the issue.

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      1. Aria‏ @aria606 29 Mar 2020
        Replying to @zeynep

        Can't China give them back now that the epidemic has passed? Maybe there should be a global "library loan" set up, so each country can borrow ventilators when the epidemic hits & return them after it passes. This is the only way supply can meet demand IMO.

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