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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Sep 2020

    I'm on the side of extra precautions, and not all schools can open. But this headline? (Culled from an AP report). All the outrage at school openings? Read the fine print. None of the four teachers caught COVID at school. It was church. It was football practice over the summer.pic.twitter.com/IZE2oQ6SUb

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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Sep 2020

        The info ecology has switched from underplaying the threat to scaremongering—human nature plus business incentives. It's easy to laugh at QAnon folks who fear widespread cult kidnappings of children but alarmism directed at children is eternal. Not limited to any political group.

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Sep 2020

        Many people are about to flood my mentions about how schools are irredeemably unsafe, cannot be opened till this is over. It's become difficult to have an evidence-based conversation about this but we must try because children are also being gravely harmed by closed schools.

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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Sep 2020

        This disease has startling age specific differences. Yet, we're opening up higher education despite evidence young adults can drive spread (efficient transmission but not sick enough to slow down) but K-6 remains locked down even in places with low community prevalence. Baffling.

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      5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Sep 2020

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted Thirsty Cruz. Big E. Lets Ski.

        I've now heard this from more than one school district. They're reportedly bringing in staff to school IN PERSON to do prep for virtual teaching.😱This is a terrible idea. Staff-to-staff transmission, followed by high-schools, is the biggest risk for K-12.https://twitter.com/CruzThirsty/status/1304125602597941248 …

        zeynep tufekci added,

        Thirsty Cruz. Big E. Lets Ski. @CruzThirsty
        Replying to @zeynep @EricColumbus
        Ask @YonkersSchools @quezada1229 why he has staff reporting to school for prep and virtual classes while students are home??? It's mind boggling, and teachers of course are grouping together in water cooler fashion to talk. 4th largest district in NY.
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      1. Professor J'aime Velo‏ @JaimeVelo 10 Sep 2020
        Replying to @zeynep @kerpen

        Out of 3.2 million teachers.

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      2. PK‏ @PKellyMLB 10 Sep 2020
        Replying to @zeynep @AlecMacGillis

        Did you see the reports of the college football player who died? Extremely tragic. All of the headlines talked about he was a D2 football player (I assume in an effort to shame the programs who are trying to play this fall), but none of them mentioned that his school cancelled FB

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      3. PK‏ @PKellyMLB 10 Sep 2020
        Replying to @PKellyMLB @zeynep @AlecMacGillis

        PK Retweeted Andrea Adelson

        And now guess what! Now they are retracting the confirmation that COVID was the cause of death to begin with.https://twitter.com/aadelsonESPN/status/1303755504032849921 …

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        Andrea AdelsonVerified account @aadelsonESPN
        Yesterday, it was reported that DII DL Jamain Stephens died as a result of coronavirus complications off a post his HS put on FB. Nobody bothered to check with the family. Today, the cause of death has been removed and Central Catholic apologized https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29845816/jamain-stephens-division-ii-lineman-dies-no-cause-given …
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      2. Harry Tuttle - Antifa™ HVAC Dept.‏ @howievermont 10 Sep 2020
        Replying to @zeynep

        what difference does it make WHERE they caught it? What this shows is that it is TOO PREVALENT and out of control to send anyone to school or anywhere. without strict enforcement of masks and limited gatherings we will never get rid of this virus.

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      3. PK‏ @PKellyMLB 10 Sep 2020
        Replying to @howievermont @zeynep

        I mean.. it matters a little bit. We are past the point of no return in regards to full lockdowns so it is scientifically relevant to know where spread happens so a) we can contract trace and b) we can know what is safe to open and what is not. So...yeah it matters.

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      2. tbn97™  💉 💉+ 💉‏ @tbn97 10 Sep 2020
        Replying to @zeynep @Asher_Wolf

        Of course, they can only transmit it at school if they caught it at school. Everybody knows that.

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      3. DumpsterFireGroupie‏ @FireGroupie 10 Sep 2020
        Replying to @tbn97 @zeynep @Asher_Wolf

        I thought I was crazy for thinking this. Glad I wasn’t alone. 😂

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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