Ugh. One year anniversary of my tweet in response to news of the Wuhan lockdown. *lolsob*https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1220061891613073409 …
-
Show this thread
-
Narrator: "Yeah, most of them went down. But not Taiwan which started restricting/monitoring travel immediately, realized human-to-human transmission was happening, ramped up production & distributed masks and took early, decisive action while we got lectured about the flu."
3 replies 29 retweets 183 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
But Taiwan is an island! Yes, it is unlike the United Kingdom, which is just a sparkling landmass (as
@ArisKatzourakis puts it).https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1348004639833206792 …zeynep tufekci added,
zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepReplying to @ArisKatzourakis @cagrimbakirciOnly islands from the "applied public health measures intelligently, aggressively, robustly and as early as possible before getting overwhelmed by exponential growth" region of France are islands, Aris! Otherwise it's not an island.2 replies 18 retweets 125 likesShow this thread -
Anyway, that was a terrible way to teach how exponentials work. Let's not do this again.
5 replies 32 retweets 183 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @zeynep
I still worry that the lessons people take away from this pandemic will mostly make the next one worse.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @maxerickson @zeynep
Part of the reason why COVID’s such a bastard is it’s a comparatively subtle virus. If it had been a more lethal, quick-burning virus like MERS or SARS it would have felt real to more people & we likely would’ve reacted quicker & more decisively. Humans suck at risk perception.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Actually, it's very much like SARS except the incubation infectivity which we learned about pretty early on but chose not to respond to properly. As a virus, it is not some subtle ninja virus at all. It's not HIV or anything like that.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.