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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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.
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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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This
@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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I had stopped updating this thread (despite the occasional example) but come on. This is Australia's "paper of record". And the tone. "One group of five maskless sunbathers lay on towels with a six-pack of beer." Yeah, stop the presses and publish their photos!pic.twitter.com/rkUIT4uVhT
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Another retrospective paper that will get eventually written: "The deadly cost of closing parks and scolding beach-goers long after it became clear that it was not only among the safest activities people could do, it displaced riskier indoor socializing."https://twitter.com/BBCHughPym/status/1361981207706292225 …
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The year is 2157. As spring blooms, parks are cordoned off with tape—an annual ritual origins of which are lost to time. Some believe tape markings ward of the evil eye that brings on disease. Others think its bright yellow stimulates the immune system.
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What exactly *is* the reason outdoor events remain banned and shamed? (Transmission outdoors isn't just rare with distancing and precautions. It's.. just rare. Very few confirmed cases anywhere and not a single confirmed outdoor-only big cluster—after a whole year).
@simonplittlepic.twitter.com/37iDJ2oMIT
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Indeed. The picture is inappropriate and misleading (even though the article itself, thankfully, has no reference to outdoors being high risk). Visuals really, really matter and photo editors need to put a stop this. https://twitter.com/ericearling/status/1383813024960507908 …pic.twitter.com/LgPf0cHBxW
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