Noticing a lot of people burnt out by twitter atm General atmosphere seems much more tense. I guess people are tired and frightened. Makes it a difficult place to have useful conversations. Besides, I'm a paediatrician. I'm not used to this aggression! I prefer bubbles...
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Replying to @apsmunro
I noticed that too. What I'm finding odd is that some of the arguments seem to be between people who have the same view from the perspective of an outside observer
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Replying to @onisillos
Yes, people who agree on 90% of a topic becoming extremely inflamed on the remaining 10% The few polite and enlightening conversations I can have with people who see things differently to me is just about keeping me going...
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Replying to @apsmunro @onisillos
For me twitter is about learning from each other and exchanging information but at the moment it’s so toxic. People are so disrespectful and seem to be behaving like this is a game to win forgetting that this is a team sport vs. the pandemic.
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This is partly why I've gotten quieter. As
@zeynep said yesterday, it's a pandemic, we should speak up despite the drama. But for some, the drama can take a real toll.8 replies 4 retweets 78 likes -
Replying to @JuliaLMarcus @mugecevik and
If the reasonable people all get quieter, the louder people with an appetite or tolerance for drama dominate though. In the before times, studying social media and social movements, this is a dynamic I observed a lot. Speak up to protect the discourse, or lose it to the drama.
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Ideally, neither public health nor expert community would be in a situation like this, we'd get synthesis and advice from authorities whose job it is to do this. But for complicated reasons, there's a void, but this is the cost and it's been terrible.
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Replying to @zeynep @JuliaLMarcus and
Zeynep that sums it up perfectly as usual. It wouldn't hurt to name the authorities, but I get that there might be a better time to do it :)
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