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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. Albert Pinto‏ @70sBachchan 25 Jan 2021

      22/ Away from the sound & fury of politics, medical & scientific workers do what homo sapiens do - learn from each others experience & adapt what works. There's little time to strut and fret. We don't make the time. The virus makes the time. #viraltime https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/24/covid-19-answers-doctors-turn-to-china/ …pic.twitter.com/8lzIMs3Qn8

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    2. Albert Pinto‏ @70sBachchan 25 Jan 2021

      23/ "We are mad at China for their bats and wet markets, but we’ve created a reservoir from which human-adapted strains can evolve that puts all that to shame. Every country that half-assed suppresses puts the entire species at risk."-@interfluidityhttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/new-coronavirus-variants-could-cause-more-reinfections-require-updated-vaccines …

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    3. Albert Pinto‏ @70sBachchan 26 Jan 2021

      24/ Instead of #ZeroCovid suppression strategy that reduces risk of new variants, business lobby in US/UK voiced support for disastrous herd immunity. Now, dangerous variants arise from places that 'let it rip' in Spring 2020: London, S Africa, Brazil... https://www.ft.com/content/17c44c96-39f2-4ada-badd-d65815b0a521 …pic.twitter.com/uXP2zqb5hf

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    4. Albert Pinto‏ @70sBachchan 26 Jan 2021

      Albert Pinto Retweeted Albert Pinto

      25/ Germany might stop all intl flights: https://www.airlive.net/breaking-germany-is-considering-to-stop-all-international-flights/ … How many Trillions of dollars, billions of jobs & millions of lives would have not been lost if Air Travel had been precautionarily stopped in Jan 2020? No travel, no pandemic! More in threadhttps://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1275890228029423616 …

      Albert Pinto added,

      Albert Pinto @70sBachchan
      Travel restrictions (or hotel quarantine) vital to controlling PANdemics. @yaneerbaryam @nntaleb @normonics urged them on Jan 26th! https://www.academia.edu/41743064/Systemic_Risk_of_Pandemic_via_Novel_Pathogens_-_Coronavirus_A_Note … Stunning genomic dataviz on how intl & domestic travelers seeded outbreaks worldwide ht @evogytis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knxq4u4hu78&feature=youtu.be … pic.twitter.com/121Srn0a44
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    5. Albert Pinto‏ @70sBachchan 26 Jan 2021

      Albert Pinto Retweeted Albert Pinto

      26/Its sad as researchers from 2000s (after '03 SARS & Ebola) found travel from hub airports as accelerants & competent E Asian states screened/quarantined travelers in real-time. Cordon Sanitaire arguments that EU/UK/US make *now* are just head exploding!https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1221800409892782083 …

      Albert Pinto added,

      Albert Pinto @70sBachchan
      Constraining transport to buy time for CDC is vital. Bar-yam/Taleb on Precautionary principal: It will be costly for ppl, China,🌍economy in the short run. But failing to do so will eventually cost everything. As w exponential stock of CO2 & climate action.https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1221500132337819650 …
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    6. Albert Pinto‏ @70sBachchan 29 Jan 2021

      Albert Pinto Retweeted Sebastian Payne

      27/ "When I tell you the British state is feeble & weak, it's now reached the point that it doesn't think it can cope with block-booking hotel rooms & then organising getting food sent up to the rooms"- @xtophercook Japan,SKorea,China did ⬇️from Jan'20!https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1353658807709265920 …

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      Sebastian PayneVerified account @SebastianEPayne
      Ministers are assuming the number of people coming to the UK would reduce dramatically if hotel quarantine is introduced. But the logistics of keeping thousands of people isolated, fed and watered is vast. Even the smallest of gaps will undermine the whole strategy.
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    7. Albert Pinto‏ @70sBachchan 30 Jan 2021

      28/ 1st mea culpa of WHO's line that precautionary travel restrictions are ineffective. Tellingly, comes about in "wealth before health" Austrian ski resort lawsuit.https://nytimes.com/2020/09/30/world/europe/ski-party-pandemic-travel-coronavirus.html … E Asian govts screened passngrs/hotel quarantine in realtime not months after horses bolted

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    8. Albert Pinto‏ @70sBachchan 1 Feb 2021

      Albert Pinto Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      29/Imagine if instead of handwashing & cleaning surfaces,govts put out simple msg last yr: #CovidIsAirborne. If all our mental models of coronavirus spread were of indoor SMOKE that lingers in air & infects long-range by inhalation we'd stop superspreadinghttps://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1355939471552864260 …

      Albert Pinto added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Read this story and weep. This, after masks, is the biggest failure—both scientific and communication—of the pandemic in Western nations: the airborne nature of the pathogen. CDC changed this guidance last October. Japan and many other nations had it right on *February* of 2020. https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1355916271662071816 … pic.twitter.com/M6X44TxTMA
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    9. Albert Pinto‏ @70sBachchan 5 Feb 2021

      Albert Pinto Retweeted Freddie Sayers

      30/ Can't imagine why China built out a functional test & trace system that keeps the virus down when they could have just paid billions to McKinsey consultants to design one that doesn't work.https://twitter.com/freddiesayers/status/1357229780240900096 …

      Albert Pinto added,

      Freddie Sayers @freddiesayers
      The next time you hear that life is "back to normal" in China because they "successfully pursued an elimination strategy" with Covid-19, remember this reality-check account of life in Beijing from @DSORennie Full story @UnHerd https://unherd.com/2021/02/inside-the-zero-covid-campaign/ … pic.twitter.com/WXPiEtw2aC
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    10. Albert Pinto‏ @70sBachchan 5 Feb 2021

      Albert Pinto Retweeted Covid One Year Ago

      31/ “If a country like China is closing down a city of 11 million, this is a big deal. It is spreading, it is deadly, and we’re going to get hit”-@zeynep. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-zeynep-tufecki.html … Instead we got this from scientific authorities⬇ & prestige media last Febhttps://twitter.com/YearCovid/status/1357785706651811842 …

      Albert Pinto added,

      Covid One Year Ago @YearCovid
      5 Feb 2020 US Surgeon General: Americans should be more concerned about the flu than coronavirus https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/02/05/coronavirus-vs-flu-us-surgeon-general-says-flu-bigger-risk/4667797002/ … pic.twitter.com/tX3qTQsEZ3
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Feb 2021
      Replying to @70sBachchan

      Yeah baffling. What the message should have been "by all means, get your flu shot because we are also facing a potential new virus".

      1:52 PM - 5 Feb 2021
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        1. Albert Pinto‏ @70sBachchan 5 Feb 2021
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          Albert Pinto Retweeted Albert Pinto

          Yes that should have been rational message. Instead we got a month cycle of people arguing over corona vs flu case fatality ratio (as you'll remember all too well from late Jan to late Feb 2020 twitter)! Even as scientific experts were properly alarmedhttps://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1328861615278657538 …

          Albert Pinto added,

          Albert Pinto @70sBachchan
          On 16th January, Prof @devisridhar advocated urgent action to stop virus from spreading. It was good advice https://twitter.com/devisridhar/status/1217877514149879808 … 11th months later, she once again looks into the future w clarity: "Why the pandemic might be over sooner than you think" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/16/vaccine-hope-fight-covid-tests-treatments …
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