CDC misinformation has helped turn this into a terrible epidemic in NYC, with masks leading the top. It's not a marginal issue. It's perhaps the number one tool in the arsenal. CDC just issued a bullshit advisory targeting only NYC/NJ after Trump quarrel with Coumo.
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(Mask misinformation, by the way, is one key reason why nursing homes have outbreaks).
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In general, I think the academic field of misinformation is fighting the last war. Social media disinformation is real, but nothing compared to the WHO/CDC crisis which will go down in history as one of the biggest failures in their history, if not the biggest.
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(You'll note I'm not mentioning Trump admin misinformation! That's a whole other ball of wax.) The stuff on masks is honestly Saddam had WMD level misinformation. Health authorities in Hong Kong or Taiwan aren't idiots and the evidence is not even complicated.
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Anyway... We're in deep trouble. If Twitter decided to ban things that contradicted the CDC or the WHO, we would be worse off, and it pains me deeply to say that. Not at all discounting the snake-oil on social media, but the big fire is top-down.
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You're misreading the study. They aerosolized it on purpose using specific machinery. This is the tragedy of not being able to believe medical authorities. People end up trying to read papers directly and not being able to interpret them correctly. So, yeah, nope.
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Sorry but that article is scientifically illiterate and misleading. Virus found via a PCR machine is very different than viable virus that can infect you. This is why we are at this idiotic point: people worry about cardboard boxes but don't wear masks FOR A RESPIRATORY disease.
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Agreed. That's another problem in the deluge of media news. It's a great finance publication, but now it, like every other publication from Teen Vogue to GQ, has to cover science/health topics and they may get it wrong. And yes, I'm all for universal basic masks as the policy.
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Yep. Clickbait has high-brow and low-brow forms.
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