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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Yeah, this will work as well as abstinence-only sex education for teenagers—leads to more unsafe sex rather than less sex. You just cannot order people not to socialize for 18 months. What you can do is give evidence-based guidance on how: i.e. outdoors! https://twitter.com/JessMMac92/status/1276863433670103041 …
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Very smart point. The unscientific, moralizing and you-know-what (bikini pics!) focus on beaches is not just wrong and counter-productive, it is a form of defeat. It turns epidemiology into a religion with a hierarchy of morals and encourages surrender. https://twitter.com/elsenorrocket/status/1276866054401273856 …
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Real issues! The answer is to manage that rather than obsessive condemnation of the least risky part. Open up local outdoors/parks to minimize travel. In vacation towns, outdoor seating or take-out only. No indoor bars. Encourage porch gatherings, etc.https://twitter.com/AndyWEllis/status/1276867536978448384 …
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Yeah, it's almost like they want to just keep publishing beach pictures! If it were 100s of pictures of risky indoor places and an occasional picture of a packed beach, we'd go meh, okay. Nothing is zero risk. But it's almost every article! Enough already.https://twitter.com/jaydeedubdesign/status/1276878111477583873 …
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What more is there to say? Even places with *no beaches* (both in central Florida) get a beach picture to accompany reporting about increasing cases.
Again: it's a virus, not a religion. It's not going to disproportionately smite people who're having fun. ht @jaydeedubdesignpic.twitter.com/uIZ2i9LRqX
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This photo is in an article in the Washington Post that has many reasonable and important points about unmasked crowding *indoors* in Myrtle beach. The caption? "Crowds pack the beach." Who you gonna believe, your lying eyes or the irresistible pull of misinforming moralizing?pic.twitter.com/9JtxUcU77n
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At this point, this “grim reaper” beach performance isn’t about the pandemic or this virus. It’s straight up moralizing about sinful behavior. Terrible from a public health stand. Those people are not doing anything high-risk, as one’s own eyes can see.https://twitter.com/wjxtvic/status/1279087603862704128 …
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It started in March, with everyone screaming about the Spring Breakers in FL (including me) The beach never was the real concern, it was the bars they packed after the sun went down But we never stopped yelling about the former, sometimes at the expense of the latter
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I spent way too long analysing one such photo from Australia. (You’ll have to scroll down a bit for the correct calculations, because I misidentified a landscape feature first time.)https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1243794449932537856.html …
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It is very angry-making.
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