California is closing indoor restaurants and bars because the data show that’s where transmission occurs, along with workplaces. Of course, bring on the beach photos—there is not a single confirmed significant outbreak at a beach, but why let that stop us? https://twitter.com/xxiborza/status/1282814799152218112 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Suzanne Goldenberg
Narrator: It's been months and there is NOT ONE KNOWN SUPERSPREADER EVENT IN A BEACH which makes sense because of sun & wind. Way to misinform, Washington Post photo editor. At this rate, we can't organize our way out of a paper bag, let alone a pandemic.https://twitter.com/suzyji/status/1284604361453297671 …
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Article: "Superspreader events are indoors". Also article: "Top expert says he avoids buses and takes his walks by the sea." Photo editor: "We put photo of a beach, right?". Good job,
@washingtonpost.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ranu Dhillon
The inordinate focus on beaches is unscientific, counter-productive (scaring people away from safe outdoor activities) and, worse, hides the true dangers and real victims of this pandemic. Such a big failure, and there seem to be no way to stop it.https://twitter.com/RanuDhillon/status/1284883221289689089 …
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Ranu Dhillon @RanuDhillonJust finished a night shift at a Bay Area hospital where Covid patients make up ~15% of all inpatients & nearly half of a full ICU All are either essential workers or live with someone who is & all but one is a person of color None of them got infected at a beach or outdoors8 replies 96 retweets 318 likesShow this thread -
Yes, let’s illustrate the crisis with widely-spaced people outdoors in a vast and sunny beach,
@business. Very, very informative.pic.twitter.com/RrxmtrwkAs
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Doctors report that many of those infected with COVID are essential workers, many people of color, living in crowded housing. What does media fixate on? Young people doing safe and good things (outdoors, distanced exercise.) Triple whammy: erase victims, moralize, misinform.pic.twitter.com/HAzUaZ7XxP
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Good one,
@sfchronicle. Story is about *contact-tracing*. The photo is ::drumroll:: a telephoto beach picture from *two-months ago* where the caption even says what everyone can see: people are spread apart. These visuals are misinformation. h/t@sethjbermanpic.twitter.com/N5qxZrbZOk
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Answering not to dunk, but to show the detrimental effects of misinformation. Months of research shows prolonged close contact (many minutes) in poorly-ventilated, indoor settings is driving the pandemic. Not a single known superspreader event in beaches. https://twitter.com/goobisgoofy/status/1285261006848110592 …
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But you are wrong. It is fun that spreads the virus. Nothing else. Just the act of having fun, or enjoying yourself.
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If everyone just stops doing anything enjoyable for 2-4 weeks the virus will magically disappear and everyone will be saved!
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That might be part of it honestly ... People know we’re in a pandemic, see a looming economic crisis, and subconsciously presume no one should be having “fun” right now So of course a beach crowd must be bad!
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