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    1. David Wallace-Wells‏ @dwallacewells 23 Jun 2020

      “We’ve known for months what it takes to bring Covid-19 under control. You need a period of severe lockdown to reduce the disease’s prevalence,” ⁦@paulkrugman⁩ writes. In fact, the solution might have been much simpler and easier: masks. (1/x)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/opinion/coronavirus-trump.html …

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    2. David Wallace-Wells‏ @dwallacewells 23 Jun 2020

      In parts of the country, at certain stages, more would have been necessary: first guidance on social distancing and hygienic practice; where necessary, restrictions on first large gatherings; and in several places, perhaps, true lockdowns.

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    3. David Wallace-Wells‏ @dwallacewells 23 Jun 2020

      Everywhere, we should have aggressively moved to protect those we knew from the start were most vulnerable—chiefly, the elderly and especially those in nursing homes—as I wrote about here:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/covid-targets-the-elderly-why-dont-our-prevention-efforts.html …

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    4. David Wallace-Wells‏ @dwallacewells 23 Jun 2020

      But masks are not just an enormously powerful tool in the fight against covid, they are also extraordinarily cheap, compared to lockdowns. How effective are they? According to one study, in mask-wearing countries, the disease grew, this spring, 8% per week. In others, it was 54%.

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    5. David Wallace-Wells‏ @dwallacewells 23 Jun 2020

      That study is here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342198360_Association_of_country-wide_coronavirus_mortality_with_demographics_testing_lockdowns_and_public_wearing_of_masks_Update_June_15_2020 …

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    6. David Wallace-Wells‏ @dwallacewells 23 Jun 2020

      Extrapolate those numbers over several weeks and they sketch disease trajectories so different they may as well be in different universes.

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    7. David Wallace-Wells‏ @dwallacewells 23 Jun 2020

      The science on these questions is not perfectly settled, of course, and other studies have found modest effects. On top of which, it can be hard to isolate the effect of masks when other cultural and policy factors contribute, as well.

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    8. David Wallace-Wells‏ @dwallacewells 23 Jun 2020

      But that masks have some meaningful positive effect was obvious from the start of the pandemic, because we knew at the outset that COVID-19 was a respiratory infection, and knew that masks were very useful and protective in fighting related diseases.

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    9. David Wallace-Wells‏ @dwallacewells 23 Jun 2020

      The brilliant @zeynep has been especially clear-eyed about this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-masks.html …

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Jun 2020
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      🙏 What a complicated story this has turned out to be. At a minimum, I hope for a NTSB type no-blame analysis, to help us not repeat such things for the future.

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        1. Eugene Zaikonnikov  💛  ✊ ✌️‏ @varjag 23 Jun 2020
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          i feel vindicated but not in any good wayhttps://twitter.com/varjag/status/1241736090526060544 …

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          Eugene Zaikonnikov  💛  ✊ ✌️ @varjag
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          you may think a commoner is too dumb for a nuanced explanation of situation but they are not as dumb as to take what appears to be clear lie at face value. all you achieve with this is distrust.
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