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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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Vinay Prasad, MD MPH 🎙️ 📷
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 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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
zeynep tufekci Retweeted A Marm Kilpatrick
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 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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
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
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
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
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
zeynep tufekci Retweeted
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 …
zeynep tufekci added,
My kids’ school is doing indoor 15-person classes but cancelling outdoor soccer and it makes me so mad. (We are abstaining from the classes.)
I think they’re thinking contact support but doesn’t make total sense.
Budgetary decision? More money spent cleaning the school and those funds come from the sports and arts?
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