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! 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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if someone knows all they can't learn +are unteachable. things fvkng change. thats why we read +research. jfc people learn to change your damn mind on stuff as the knowledge +info changes. You worship jesus as a messenger but shoot other messengers its the message that matters!!
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Just wanted to drop a note of fandom. I started following your writing on the Arab Spring a few years ago, and it's been very rewarding to see your thoughts on a wide variety of topics.
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