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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 3 Apr 2020

      I can't wait to put an end to this thread.

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Jun 2020

      The WHO finally "encourages" the public to wear masks. What a tragic waste of time and a needless squandering of medical authority amidst a pandemic. By March, there was enough evidence of presymptomatic and asymptomatic transmission for me to write this. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1268927569065324547 …pic.twitter.com/2Me0Sj9OlD

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Jun 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted World Health Organization (WHO)

      Also not only is there no evidence for this claim, there is emerging evidence for the opposite, and there is decades of evidence from other safety devices that this concern is not warranted, and if this was a thing, it would also apply to hand-washing. 🙄https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1268927995932225541 …

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      World Health Organization (WHO)Verified account @WHO
      "Masks can also create a false sense of security, leading people to neglect measures such as hand hygiene and physical distancing"-@DrTedros #COVID19
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Jun 2020

      Here's a preprint of a paper (I'm a co-author) where we review the "false sense of security" claim and explain why it doesn't stand to evidence at all, and why, on the contrary, universal masks would be expected to lessen stigma and heighten solidarity. https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0203/v2 …pic.twitter.com/2tDzvYGNVr

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Jun 2020

      If some past person had told me I'd spend most of my energy in the first months of a pandemic arguing against CDC and WHO guidelines, that they would drag their feet despite mounting evidence, and that we'd rely on grassroots movements instead, I'd have dismissed them as nuts.

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    6. indica‏ @indica 5 Jun 2020
      Replying to @zeynep

      So they got masks wrong. Most countries followed basic WHO guidance, made their own decision on masks, and did OK. You don't need to tear the whole WHO down for this. They're in a dangerous position as is and especially in the Global South we really depend on them.

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Jun 2020
      Replying to @indica

      In a pandemic, they got one of the most important tools we have wrong; they also had human-to-human transmission issue covered up for too long; they got travel bans wrong. It's a pandemic. But I know why they're necessary. I wrote about how to fix it.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-world-health-organization-failed/610063/ …

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Jun 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @indica

      Ignoring massive and institutional failures doesn't help anything in the long run, especially for poorer countries. Try to get them to do their job right isn't "tearing down".

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    9. indica‏ @indica 5 Jun 2020
      Replying to @zeynep

      You're focusing on one rational actor that made mistakes and had limitations, while it was irrational actors like the US that completely messed this up. Whatever your intentions, it's fodder for people attacking the WHO.

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    10. indica‏ @indica 5 Jun 2020
      Replying to @indica @zeynep

      Trump makes a malevolent attack on the WHO, and then people like you launder it. Of course, they could improve, they're a blundering institution. You can look closely at any institution and see that, especially during a novel pandemic.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Jun 2020
      Replying to @indica

      That is a serious and absolutely false charge. People who would rather not talk about the obvious failures of WHO and thus refuse to try to fix the reasons they happened will be the ones "laundering" everything that will destroy kind of WHO that could carry out its mission.

      9:37 AM - 5 Jun 2020
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        1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Jun 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @indica

          Silence and denial of existing problems of the kind you advocate is led to the kind of politics that got this president elected. I will try to continue fixing things, especially structural problems as this was that, and I refuse to be complicit. Your stance is your choice.

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        2. indica‏ @indica 5 Jun 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          That is the effect of what you do. The US has defunded the WHO. Zeynep publishes articles saying why it's a mess. All of your intentions aside, what effect do you think your work has?

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Jun 2020
          Replying to @indica

          The opposite effect of your stance: try to fix things so that the world doesn't suffer from pandemics like this. Again, you choose your stance.

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