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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 20 Feb 2021

      Anniversary of Europe’s first lockdown in Italy where ~95K people died of COVID. A 38-year old man shows up at ER, can’t breathe but he only had dinner with people just back from China, he wasn’t in China. So not part of testing! Doctors had to fight to break protocol to test.pic.twitter.com/oVp7JwcwRI

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Feb 2021

      The key problem, in a nutshell. “We thought this was a far away problem that had to do with China, but it was already here with us, and not just from that February 20th but probably from much earlier.”https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-first-doctor-idUSKBN2AK0BA …

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Feb 2021

      I keep saying this, but February 2020 felt like an out-of-body experience. It wasn’t just Trump (though of course he is responsible, culpable and he was terrible) who was in in denial. At some point, when things are calmer, we really need a reckoning on due alarm versus alarmism.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Feb 2021

      I’m on the record insisting that China’s initial coverup was costly, terrible & inexcusable. But after January 20th, they tried to warn us. We got flooded with excellent papers. Their health minister said “it spreads without symptoms” on JANUARY 26th. We didn’t believe it. On us.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Feb 2021

      I wrote about just that. We absolutely could have distinguished between the strong reasons to suspect their statement before January 20th and the strong reasons to *believe* them afterwards. Knowing what to believe, and when and why is a crucial skill. https://zeynep.substack.com/p/lessons-from-a-pandemic-anniversary …pic.twitter.com/9qJm5GliSL

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        1. Flavored Cats‏ @tpwk47 20 Feb 2021
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          This was obviously going to be a big deal after January 20. There was a story I read in late January and I was like "crap, that's gonna make everyone run out and hoard supplies". I dragged my wife because I thought minutes mattered. Nope, stores empty.

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        1. Joanna Teglund  😷  🪟 Don't get infected #ZeroCovid‏ @JoannaTeglund 20 Feb 2021
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          I remember. All the information reaching me from about January 2020 I didn't want to hear. January 27 I couldn't deny it any longer. I understood that corona is a threat to our civilization. Since then I wrote about 11,000 tweets following the pandemic. Western world still denies

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        2. Andy Tuck‏ @andytuck123 20 Feb 2021
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          Don’t make the mistake of taking people like @LaszloVictory on good faith. You don’t need to know a fancy term like “criterion of embarrassment” to realize China wasn’t lying the second time around. It’s not “knowing what to believe and why;” it’s common sense

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        3. Andy Tuck‏ @andytuck123 20 Feb 2021
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          Politically motivated denial ≠ “not knowing what to believe”

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        1. Diaminedave‏ @davecoopcourier 20 Feb 2021
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          Surely US and rest of world would also have had back channels which would have given supporting evidence to seriousness of situation before official confirmation via WHO?

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