Me: "being contained by the country where it originated" You: "SARS 2003 despite global spread" "global spread" means it spread beyond the borders of the country that originated it, Zeynep!!!
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Replying to @Noahpinion @jbarro
Yes, a much worse scenario! It corresponds to your already escaped hypothetical, Noah. I’m giving an answer to the *strongest* version of your argument.
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No you're not. You gave an example of a virus spreading to other countries before being contained in multiple countries. You dodged the question I asked. Obviously this virus is much harder to stop than SARS, and SARS managed to escape its country of origin. Try again?
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Replying to @Noahpinion @jbarro
How is it harder to contain a globally spread virus compared to one in just one city with known focal origin? Even Wuhan seems to have eliminated it even after much more spread, then got a reintroduction. Taiwan. Hong Kong. New Zealand. They had a shot. They spent it covering up.
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"How is it harder to contain a globally spread virus" <-- It was NOT contained in the country where it originated. Country of origin requires extra time to figure out what virus it's facing. So you have yet to provide me with an answer to my simple, direct question.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @jbarro
Why? They knew. Doctors knew. They had the genome. They had it nailed very early. Not their first rodeo. If anything, country of origin has a much easier time because they have the focal place of origin. Lower bar for them.
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Again, a refusal to answer my question, followed by unsupported assertions that contradict evidence given elsewhere in the thread, and an incorrect assertion (it's a higher bar because it takes time to identify and understand a new virus). I think I'm done here!
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Also, by the way, I'd like to know why you deleted your earlier tweet declaring that "we have to go for herd immunity", after vigorously and angrily defending that tweet when I criticized it.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @jbarro
That’s not what I said. I retweeted an article by two Harvard epidemiologists explaining the math better. Because most people still don’t understand the math. It got re-tweeted by an alt-right truther dude. I delete when that happens because the harassment makes Twitter unusable.
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I’m pretty proud of my own record on this, warning about the virus and explaining flattening the curve in February, writing the first big mask oped in mid-March, talking about outdoors in April, explaining ventilation/aerosols now. I’m good.
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I just don’t like quote tweets because they pull the argument out of context. And there’s a lot of words that have become too loaded to discuss in tweet length. Again I’m gonna go with pretty happy to stand on my record of understanding and explaining. Twitter not that amenable.
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