Rising through academia involves learning elaborate rituals of hierarchy and not upsetting people in the many positions of authority above you. Internalized hierarchy makes it hard to even consider supplanting the inertial authority of a damaged CDC.https://twitter.com/choo_ek/status/1291789978716868608 …
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I think this is also why hospital admins chose not to stockpile PPE in February, enforced not wearing N95s outside of "aerosol generating procedures" in March, why it took
@zeynep to get us all to wear masks, and why it's somehow still@zeynep getting us to think about airflow.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
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Thank you. On the one hand, I'm going to credit the scientists who did all the work, of course. On the other hand, yes, the communication has been a disaster, and that we didn't have better leadership from the academy/experts has something to do with the internalized hierarchies.
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Lots of individual scientists, tried, of course. But too few of us out there right now, and not coordinated. I'm still marveling how I ended up writing preparing and flattening the curve in February, masks in March, outdoors in April, source-control in May, airflow in July, etc.
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