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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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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 May 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Tom Gara

      So the terrible carnage in NYC goes back to this. The city officials decided to gamble with lives and the people weren’t warned by officials or others despite the terrible Lombardy and Wuhan examples that had just happened.https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1261049462618763264 …

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      Tom GaraVerified account @tomgara
      Head of the NY public hospital system advised de Blasio against lockdowns, wanted to do the herd immunity thing instead, said Italy was “having a terrible problem that I do not believe we will have” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/nyregion/coronavirus-de-blasio-mitchell-katz.html …
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 May 2020

      So the same person, who didn’t think the pandemic required shutting down large or any gatherings and didn’t think what happened in Italy could happen in NYC, is in charge of setting up contact tracing in NYC. Unlike a few beaches opening, this seems like a real scandal.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 May 2020

      There are a lot of unknowns still with this virus. There will be some mistakes only in hindsight. But after the tragedies in Wuhan and Lombardy, “it cannot happen here” shouldn’t fly. The bigger the downside, the more precaution is warranted.

      9:39 PM - 14 May 2020
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        2. Altan  🌱 #FBPE  🔶  🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇹🇷‏ @Stochasticeqtn 14 May 2020
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          But Sweden seems to have implemented the same strategy successfully.

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        2. Proud European from Austria 🇪🇺 🇦🇹  🌏‏ @e2dot7182818284 15 May 2020

          You may not know this, but Wuhan is an air travel hub & an economic hub Wuhan ≈27 million travelers /year NY ≈107 passengers /year I don't think the difference in numbers changes the principles that apply. ie: the principles are scale fee

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        1. Cyrus Samii‏ @cdsamii 15 May 2020
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          The whole lot of them are a disaster. Yes Katz was sending emails, but Barbot was pushing back against shutdowns too, publicly on Twitter!

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        1. St Marksist‏ @StMarksist 15 May 2020
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          But isn’t it worse than that? They seem to have known a lot of people were going to get sick and die, while at the same time telling people it was safe to go to the movies. It’s the lying that makes it impossible for them to lead the re-opening strategy

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        1. harvest dance‏ @bandofbricks 15 May 2020
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          Everyone who said we should just let it ride out needs to be permanently sounded out of public service.

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        1. James William Owens‏ @Willard1951 16 May 2020
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          It's the common rationalization/delusion that is the height of stupidity: An infectious disease won't really infect us, just them

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