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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 4 Jan 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Dima Babilie (ديما ببيلي)

      I'd like to highlight a point about epistemology. Many people—scientists and journalists—with infectious disease experience immediately pegged this as the next potential SARS. It had all the hallmarks. Nothing was certain, but it wasn't that we had "no data." We always have data.https://twitter.com/DimaBabilie/status/1345861726370205696 …

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      Dima Babilie (ديما ببيلي) @DimaBabilie
      This is the first story the BBC published about Coronavirus exactly one year ago. It was only referred to as a “mysterious viral pneumonia”. Crazy how no one thought this would still be the biggest and most important story of our lives. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-50984025 …
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    2. Pwn All The Things‏Verified account @pwnallthethings 4 Jan 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @ncweaver

      A lot of folks carefully rewriting history to pretend that no one thought this would be a big deal to whitewash early inaction. But lots of folks were *also* saying it was a big deal early on, and were painted as hysterical.

      4 replies 12 retweets 126 likes
      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Jan 2021
      Replying to @pwnallthethings @ncweaver

      I got lectures on "elite panic" because I objected—in February!–to very very mainstream media articles making fun of people worried about COVID-10 (those articles were lecturing us about the flu.) The amnesia is amazing.

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        2. Saad Gul‏ @NC_CyberLaw 4 Jan 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @pwnallthethings @ncweaver

          It doesn’t matter whether you’re right or wrong. So long as you’re along with the herd of Very Important Peoplepic.twitter.com/eHiOC7BrJD

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        1. strange opera‏ @OperaStrange 4 Jan 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @pwnallthethings @ncweaver

          i started stocking up on stuff in January, but i am an anxious person anyway. i wasn’t super worried until i learned that the US pandemic response team had been disbanded. then we locked our household down.

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        1. Greg Gransden‏ @gregatval 4 Jan 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @pwnallthethings @ncweaver

          I got told “chill, you’re being hysterical.”

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        2. Dana Parish‏Verified account @danaparish 4 Jan 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @pwnallthethings @ncweaver

          Did you happen to see this gem? Someone tweeted it to me last week. The concerted echo chamber took my breath away. There shld be severe consequences to all of them. But there won’t be.pic.twitter.com/Oin6K0perw

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        3. Dana Parish‏Verified account @danaparish 4 Jan 2021
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          Note that by the time these articles were published, China and Iran had people keeling over in the streets for a month or 2. If I knew that, so did they. So, what was the goal here?

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