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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zeynep tufekci Retweeted AWE
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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AWE @AndyWEllisReplying to @zeynep @VirginiaBuysseThe % if people abiding by pod philosophy is astoundingly low. I also am unconcerned with on the beach activity, but the ancillary party/social activities afterward. No to mention, cross pollination of different groups from different states raises the national risk profile5 replies 29 retweets 184 likesShow this thread -
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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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Replying to @JuliaLMarcus
Someone should make an archive. It's non-stop for months now.
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Was just reading your thread then went back to the TL and immediately saw thishttps://twitter.com/wsbtv/status/1278498625094475777?s=19 …
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Right, and the issue here probably wasn't the beach itself, it was this: “At least one group said there were about 40 folks staying in one house and they were having parties or being at parties with over 100 people in the house.”
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Exactly. That's exactly what people should be warned about... But these beach visuals at this point are effectively misinformation.
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Replying to @zeynep @JuliaLMarcus
At this point, it seems like for aesthetic reasons. Maybe the newspapers should let the layout people run more pictures of beautiful beaches in non-covid stories so they get it out of their system.
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