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    1. Josh Barro‏Verified account @jbarro 18 Jan 2021

      Public health experts are underselling the likely effectiveness of the vaccines -- part of a broader pattern of not trusting the public with the truth.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/briefing/donald-trump-pardon-phil-spector-coronavirus-deaths.html …

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    2. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 18 Jan 2021
      Replying to @jbarro

      People are still missing the real scandal on masks. Not wanting people to hoard them was only one part and not the main part. Epi/Dr community in US and Europe didn't believe they were effective. Treated use in Asia as quaint nonsense. Huge error.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Jan 2021
      Replying to @joshtpm @kevinluikf @jbarro

      There was also the insistence on dangers of alleged “false sense of security” from masks.. I spent months arguing with various expert committees, showing them sociology evidence why this was nonsense. They hand-waved it away. Gladwellian disease, assuming contrarianism is smart.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Jan 2021
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      And then the amnesia! Once masks, finally, became the guidance, the false sense of security claims all kinda went *poof* without people asking wait what, and it became “covidiots” who don’t listen to science who refuse masks... Wouldn’t believe this if I hadn’t lived through it.

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        2. Mark Funkhouser‏Verified account @mayorfunk 18 Jan 2021
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          One of the reasons for the decline of respect for expertise is the decline in respect for the wisdom of regular folks.

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        2. Jim Hanna‏ @hannajim 18 Jan 2021
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          Yes, seeing the dynamics of the responses to the pandemic has fully convinced me that the probability of humanity dealing effectively with the much more serious threat of climate change is approximately nil.

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        3. Brendon‏ @3662brendon 18 Jan 2021
          Replying to @hannajim @zeynep and

          at least insomuch as "humanity" involves Europe and America

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Jan 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @joshtpm and

          Harvard law prof who, even at the END OF FEBRUARY, was mocking pandemic talk as “irrational” now heads WHO social science committee & the prominent US MD who pushed masks are false sense of security into the summer is in Biden COVID task force. (I’m sure he’s an excellent MD). 🤷‍♀️

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        3. A Allen‏ @AnnaBanana59 18 Jan 2021
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          Amazing anyone is still alive.

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        1. Caroline the Contrarian‏ @carolineistanbu 18 Jan 2021
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          and the message of how often to dispose of masks never was given effectively.

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        1. Jerry‏ @JHan1on 18 Jan 2021
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          What happens when a pandemic & US Presidential elections come together? “Scientifically Informed” P-doc claims Trump has a 156 genius IQ, “Life Coach” guy defends David Icke, All American nutrition Chiropracter downplays COVID death numbers 2 weeks before the election & holidays.

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        2. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 18 Jan 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @kevinluikf @jbarro

          Incredibly true. I remember one early March presser with then-NYC health chief Barbot. One remember asked can’t it help even some if people where a surgical mask? Her answer was that she’d recently seen a guy in the city wearing a mask that he’d pulled down to smoke a cigarette.

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        3. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 18 Jan 2021
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          2/ I remember thinking, how is this kind of non sequitur the basis or logic behind this guidance? It was of course put in the guise of false sense of security, incorrect use etc. It was clear that denial of the efficacy of masking was a kind of idee fixe around which a changing..

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