It's important not just to remember this (the incorrect guidance on masks) but to study and understand it. When I wrote my "masks work" op-ed on March 17 for the New York Times, I honestly thought I was likely ending my career as a public writer. https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1261994903007113216 …
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Thank you! Again, I wrote a pro-mask oped thinking that was the end of my writing career (I have a day job as an academic so a small sacrifice in the grand scheme) and people who followed the advice were sneered at and even attacked. JUST TWO MONTHS AGO.https://twitter.com/artcraftculture/status/1262067746960883713 …
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"We" keep starting the analytic clock from the moment when "we" changed our mind or got affected (Trump getting elected, for ex.). That's no way to understand the world. It's human: "we" are all blind to ourselves. It takes enormous effort to try not to be. But that's the work.
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Thank you! I also thought I was toast. I'm proud of what I chose to do but I'm also an academic with tenure. That's the whole point of tenure: to give people the opportunity to take these kinds of risks. It wasn't exactly running into a burning building.https://twitter.com/LazarusLong13/status/1262069538255826944 …
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Yes. That's how you get resilience.https://twitter.com/lydiajo/status/1262069338296680454 …
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Yes, the messaging ranged from "they don't work" to "they make things worse." The latter never had any scientific basis but gets repeated to this day.https://twitter.com/Fly_Agaric/status/1262072335315562496 …
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As usual, all of that gets mixed together. To this day, anti-maskers cite the old articles (especially the ones that falsely said masks make things worse), screenshots of CDC guidelines/tweets, WHO... It's embedded in a individualistic/liberty framework.https://twitter.com/TeflonFong/status/1262075578812948481 …
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The public health argument was very hard to get across.https://twitter.com/binneystreetbio/status/1262090664541650946 …
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Because we have turned every damn thing into an ideological battle.
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If we had admitted that masks are effective we would have drawn attention to a host of sectors in which the West is behind Asia (public health, manufacturing, trust in government etc.). In short, we lied and obfuscated to conceal our decline from ourselves.
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Epidemiologists have seen this before. Even before we shut down, I was reading expectations that people tire of the quarantine and start breaking the rules in a few weeks. This is why pandemics happen.
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