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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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    1. 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. Heywood Jablonsky‏ @slurmslurper 10 Sep 2020
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      Do you have kids? When my daughter was in daycare pre-pandemic everyone in the house was sick with rolling illnesses from October to April. Maybe kindergartners don’t get very sick from Covid but they’ll certainly spread it to their families

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Sep 2020
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      Actually, no. Kids are *known* to be superspreaders of flu, but not of COVID. We're past such generalizations here. It made sense in March, when we knew fairly little.

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        2. Reclaiming My Time‏ @ofthestardust 10 Sep 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @slurmslurper

          This seems like a stretch for you to state it with such certainty. We do not yet *know* kids don’t spread at high levels. The data seems to be conflicting and also still very early, considering how many kids were home from mid-March til recently.

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        3. Virginia Buysse, PhD‏ @VirginiaBuysse 12 Sep 2020
          Replying to @ofthestardust @zeynep @slurmslurper

          You are overstating the case for children not being vessels for transmission. While children generally do not become as ill when they contract Covid19, there just isn’t enough data to say definitively that they don’t spread the disease. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-scientists-know-about-how-children-spread-covid-19-180975396/ …

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