Many weeks after my my mask-oped, finally seeing accurate pieces on masks. Why did it take so long? Why not before? My piece on media errors/complacency is part of the picture. Still too much herding and circling the wagons—and resistance to reflection.https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1242639141873111041 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted David Isaacson
I wrote this in late February—there still wasn't any helpful pieces on why we needed to flatten the curve! Late February! Why not? (Can't find traditional media pieces before mine who explained the term—the phrase isn't mine, of course, it's well-known).https://twitter.com/writesaacson/status/1245336551292375040 …
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David Isaacson @writesaacsonOkay, one more: it took a while for "flattening the curve" to enter the vernacular.@zeynep, in this@sciam blog on Feb 27, was one of the first to advise Americans to prepare to "stay home for two or three weeks, going out as little as possible." https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/preparing-for-coronavirus-to-strike-the-u-s/ … /8Show this thread4 replies 11 retweets 55 likesShow this thread -
Yesterday, I commented on something tech, and someone was like, what do you have to do with tech? Lol! I've been pandemic writing for months. He had no idea I do tech. I didn't want to write "flatten the curve" or "we need masks" pieces. But people who should and could weren't.
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Forget reflection, I got weird pushback.
@NateSilver538 was so mad about me writing about the complacent/lagging media message that he caricatured my position beyond recognition and told me to "sit this one out". Yet, I'll say it again: there should be a reckoning & hasn't been.12 replies 19 retweets 203 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted
Yes. For example, we are finally seeing more coverage of asymptomatic transmission, in context of finally admitting the argument for masks. We had many many peer-reviewed papers on asymptomatic and non-feverish, atypical clinical presentation since Jan 29. https://twitter.com/hhavrilesky/status/1245362927630090242 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Cliff Featherstone
More countries are switching to masks. Yeay! That's the good. If media had earlier dug into the science of masks and the experience of Asian countries that had been successful in containing this epidemic, we could have been here weeks ago. That's the bad.https://twitter.com/seaef/status/1245444646664355843 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted COVID Perspective
This is great! California! By the way, would love for CA issue guidelines for correct use and sanitization. It's good to say masks *in addition to* other measures. But I have yet to see a single convincing study of "incorrect" use being worse than no mask.https://twitter.com/covidperspectiv/status/1245438129974083584 …
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COVID Perspective @covidperspectivCalifornia will issue new guidance today around the use of face masks / coverings in public, making it we believe the first state to do so. The state is stressing the correct use of masks and... it will not be a replacement for physical distancing; "additive" to other guidance.3 replies 31 retweets 92 likesShow this thread -
My prediction is that, until vaccines, we will go through waves where we necessarily relax social isolation but masks will help a lot during those intermittent periods. How much is an empirical question but Japan—screwing up everything else but masks—suggests it is a great deal.
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The message is really getting out now. But it's first going to create a bump in anxiety as masks are even harder to find than hand-sanitising gel. Time for home-made masks I guess…
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Yep. But we should really ramp up production and distribute a few per person the way a lot of countries in Asia have done—of course after taking care of health care workers.
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Replying to @zeynep @FHeinderyckx
S Korea and Taiwan both great role models for that. S Korea from early March got their act together.
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Replying to @zeynep @FHeinderyckx
I spray mine front and back with alcohol to reuse. It dries immediately. A Chinese doctor said in time of shortage it is acceptable as long as the mask didn't get wet or wasn't used in a high risk area like a hospital.
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