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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We screwed up the testing infrastructure so badly that people are waiting two weeks to get their results. Surely,
@Oregonian, it's the fault of these people undertaking an enjoyable, safe activity! By having fun safely, they've caused the labs to come to a halt. h/t@joeahandpic.twitter.com/NfANTDfOKC
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@BBCNews, articles about Sweden and COVID must be illustrated by ... a beach picture, as Sweden is famous for beaches driving the pandemic! (The epidemiologists are all lying when they say there isn't a single known superspreader event on a beach). (ht@geunsmeyer)pic.twitter.com/Yo3YOYJ7ML
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You'd think this virus exclusively lives on beaches and preys on anyone daring to enjoy them. If they want to illustrate travel risks, isn't there a single picture of a bar, an indoor party or any of those things that we know are high risk? But hey can't compete with bikini pics!pic.twitter.com/bvqdz9qW70
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I agree. Doctors are reporting emergency rooms full of "essential workers"—basically low-wage and largely non-white younger people who got forced back to indoors work or their family members. But media is stuck on moralizing about beaches. Misinformation.https://twitter.com/monkey_pasta/status/1287196060620853249 …
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This was the Boston Globe headline, by the way, to add to the thread of shame. People going to the beach, especially in or near the town they already live in, is a safe and healthy activity. How about we focus on the risks, the essential workers and the colleges about to open.pic.twitter.com/Qpk7Bn1g2l
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@JuliaLMarcus is absolutely correct. For the New York Times to use visuals of perhaps the three safest but fun activities—a beach, a park, and a drive-through movie, as a photo for virus’s resurgence is straight up misinformation. And it’s pathological.https://twitter.com/julialmarcus/status/1289984383378546689 …
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@bloomberg article is... about indoor parties. The photo, on the other hand, is pure misinformation. The people are *outside* in circles, spread apart far more than even the guidelines! What is this media obsession with scolding people doing the right thing? ht@leonhjavipic.twitter.com/giucryDaY2
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Misleading beach photos are harmful misinformation from traditional media. THE ARTICLE IS ABOUT AN *INDOOR* PARTY OF 100+ THAT WAS BUSTED. GUESS WHERE PEOPLE GO IF YOU KICK THEM OFF THESE SAFE BEACHES—WHERE THERE IS NOT A SINGLE KNOWN OUTBREAK. Maddening.
ht @sheena_burgesspic.twitter.com/GOVUMAQqC3
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Ah. It makes sense now! By misinforming everyone about the simple fact that beaches & backyards are the most sensible places to socialize, we fool young ones into thinking they're rebelling and "breaking quarantine" when they're actually being sensible.

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This, from April, may be the platonic ideal of beach misinformation plus victim erasure. It simultaneously erases the reality that poorer/non-white people less able to work from home and isolate are suffering more while *also* using the safest looking beach photo I can imagine.pic.twitter.com/Ri4rXzqEc2
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Another terrible entry in the misinformation thread of shame. Yes, younger people are dying more in Florida but not because of the beaches. They're dying because they are "essential" but low-wage workers—also disproportionately non-white. ht
@dylanhmorris https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/us/virus-young-deaths.html …pic.twitter.com/vSZnUwFQTe
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I have no words for this one. It’s not scolding but it just shows how so much of our actions aren’t really evidence-based.https://twitter.com/vprasadmdmph/status/1294648527956500480 …
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If you're a media outlet, seems you cannot stop from cynically spreading visual misinformation about what's actually high-risk for spreading COVID—not the activity pictured here: many actual victims are poorer, low-wage "essential" workers or nursing homes/prisons. ht
@theturnerpic.twitter.com/0jrxJIKxq4
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This is genuinely infuriating. We should be *encouraging* people to take advantage of the vast open spaces that beaches offer, and provide proper guidance and rules for ancillary activities (like indoors dining!) that are actually unsafe.https://twitter.com/DiseaseEcology/status/1295598186375987203 …
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Remarkable! The insistence on visual misinformation knows no boundaries in its targets. This is not harmless: countries and states are still closing beaches and parks: possibly the safest outdoors activities. People’s health will be worse off, plus the alternative is... indoors.pic.twitter.com/EnzK8Y0KYU
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Doctors in the front lines keep telling us how low-wage “essential” workers are the majority of victims. Statistic show black and Hispanic people are disproportionately dying, getting infected at work. This? Actively erasing the real victims and misinforming us! ht
@Brian_Orakpic.twitter.com/RiHeYdGTYM
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The article itself in
@bopinion. talks about parties and indoors gatherings. The picture? A safe beach! We don't know of any beach outbreaks. If people are getting infected in activities around beaches (indoor parties or restaurants?) then let's talk about that. ht@sillygwailopic.twitter.com/pwo13UDlgQ
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One of the most thoughtful academics on this,
@jljcolorado writes a long article making the case for aerosol transmission, *emphasizing* how outdoors is much safer and that's part of the evidence. Then he has to go back and have the picture changed because.. yeah, you guessed it.pic.twitter.com/sCdb6d30CL
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I keep thinking we can't reach further heights of absurdity on media visual misinformation, but I keep being proven wrong. The former director of the CDC wrote an excellent article on masks. First, the photo for the article—perhaps most important lever for impact. Next, the text.pic.twitter.com/ISi7Zpz5lI
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Also important: there are a lot of examples of media going out of their way to falsely represent beaches as crowded through use of lenses and angles. All that despite being outdoors much safer and completely inappropriate to represent high-risk for COVID. https://twitter.com/sarahtakesfotos/status/1299870154105389056 …
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If you read the article itself in the New York Times, you see this beach photo but you'd learn that *indoor* nightclubs in Spain were allowed to remain open till 5a before the 2nd wave. Also street cleaning is theater. (They do have *one* ER photo for a change!) ht
@artur0castropic.twitter.com/w3nJFv2Bb4
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Eek, et tu
@ScienceMagazine? Article: "In the spring, some countries banned almost any outdoor activity, including jogging; now, the focus is on *indoor* activities. 'We’ve learned outdoor hospitality is generally fine.'" Photo? A beach, of course! How dare people have safe fun!pic.twitter.com/F0NB1AiTbg
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But that beach that
@Bloomberg chose to represent as COVID risk? It's misinformation. That beach is vast, not even mildly crowded and it's probably as safe an outing as one can imagine. What will it take to for media to communicate INDOORS is the high risk place? h/t@leonhjavipic.twitter.com/uMhcZiEHU0
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“Look at these people having a safe outlet during such difficult times. Let’s just make sure we scold them for that, and not use the power of visuals to inform people of the actual big risks of crowded, unventilated indoors.” ht
@mauprietopic.twitter.com/BF4K0baF63
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Visuals overwhelm words. Also if they know the facts, why aren’t they communicating them?
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Risk is so grave that media must make sure not to use the power of visuals to correctly identify risk—indoors. https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1302962825778933763 …pic.twitter.com/3na5Fo3oFb
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Is there data from Brazil on the actual victims and where they are contracting COVID? If it is like all the other places on the planet, it's not the beach—it's "essential", especially low-wage workers, nursing/elderly homes, and indoor spaces. ht
@KetanJ0https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1303302070724952064 …
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@sfgate headline is about COVID's death toll but it is represented visually with a safe and fun day at Dolores Park! Why let facts get in the way of visual misinformation? Deaths and cases in SF are disproportionately from the Hispanic population—low-paid essential jobs.pic.twitter.com/V1DrgnwNU6
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Finally on article with a beach picture I can share with approval!https://twitter.com/MackayIM/status/1313264105436803072 …
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Did Covid make this policy? Discourage beaches in a heatwave and thus encourage... air-conditioned indoors. Anti-science, anti-safety. ht
@JenniferSey and@JuliaLMarcus.https://twitter.com/danielkotzin/status/1317527184303562752 …
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