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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"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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I started fighting here for cloth masks after reading the article and supporting works. You saved lives.
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One of first times I wore a mask in public was in late March--last time I set foot in a grocery store (strictly delivery/curbside pickup since). Two 20-somethings saw me & started mock-sneezing when they got to next aisle. Even now, I can feel side-eyes from mask skeptics.
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My first day outside of my few streets in London near the hospital and went from lots of masks to being one of few wearing one—it was your tweets that got me ordering early. Thank you!
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You changed my mind, too! Thanks for being brave!
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