Can we please have a talk with the photo editors? ENOUGH WITH THE BEACH PICTURES ruining articles.
Beaches are one of the least risky environments. Indoor bars and restaurants. House parties. Indoor gatherings where unmasked people talk. Not beaches.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/us/coronavirus-cases-young-people.html …
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What's the top comment? "Stay inside, save lives." Nope. "Staying inside" itself has many harms, is not sustainable for another year, and outdoors is important for mental and physical health. The problem isn't young ones having fun, it's doing risky things which are... indoors.pic.twitter.com/kxS5iAawBx
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This virus is not a moral agent that will disproportionately smite young people who annoy their elders with all their fun or one's ideological enemies. It spreads with some behaviors and settings that are not in a moral or ideological hierarchy. It's not a religion, it's a virus.
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I've been thinking about this a lot, especially as I weight why this is spiking in the summer. I was wondering if there has been research about how people flocking to indoor spaces with a/c might equal more exposure than being outdoors at the beach/park.
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This Fresh Air addressed a lot of practical questions for me and said basically that. In particular, the epidemiologist said beaches were low risk bc they were outside and tended to have a strong breeze, so the virus dispursed quickly https://www.npr.org/2020/06/17/879255417/amid-confusion-about-reopening-an-expert-explains-how-to-assess-covid-risk …
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I wrote this at the beginning of April. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/closing-parks-ineffective-pandemic-theater/609580/ … A lot of this evidence has been pretty clear *for months* and yet endless stream of beach pictures, viral tweets, every outlet using beach pictures...
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I wish I could follow all your tweets on this or that there was a way to centrally organize them! You’ve been a great resource of information Zeynep.
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Thank you. Most of the writing is at Atlantic with some early pieces at the NYT and The Scientific American. I'm writing as fast as I humanly can! Glad it's been useful.
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