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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Feb 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Joedy McCreary

      I’m not saying it was a wise thing to rush out to celebrate. But how many events like this have we had? Outdoors but widely condemned, confidently called called superspreader. But wasn’t, barely reported. (UNC tests all students on campus twice a week and off campus once a week).https://twitter.com/JoedyMcCreary/status/1362881044551237639 …

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      Joedy McCrearyVerified account @JoedyMcCreary
      Franklin Street sure looked like a super spreader event 13 days ago after UNC beat Duke. A spike would have at least started to show up by now -- but it hasn't. Why not? https://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/dodging-a-bullet-no-spike-in-covid-19-cases-in-aftermath-of-franklin-street-celebration-yet/ …
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Feb 2021

      The amount of energy we spend confidently predicting catastrophe from things we can see while ignoring a year of evidence on where the high risk are—indoors, workplaces, mostly poor and minority essential workers, crowded housing, congregate living, elderly.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Feb 2021

      No doubt young people can contribute a lot to spread, but the way to deal with that is to figure out the risks and avoid driving them into crowded indoor socializing and to test them often. (Also don’t gather them in dorms & send them home in a panic without testing. Like Fall.)

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Feb 2021

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      Nope. It was a maskless and prolonged indoor event. We just got more media pictures from the outdoors portion because... looking for keys under the light is easier. (Outdoor transmission isn't impossible. Just really rare and much harder). https://twitter.com/Maxtropolitan/status/1363505037410975745 …

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Feb 2021

      I published my first piece pleading to keep parks open & letting people socialize outdoors on April 1st 2020. I stand by every word. It wasn't that complicated. The epi data, the reasons, the sociology of a sustainable pandemic response. It was all there. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/closing-parks-ineffective-pandemic-theater/609580/ …pic.twitter.com/ldahx4cLj0

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Feb 2021

      I was trying, desperately, to warn us to get ready in February of 2020—and being lectured about being too panicky—but also trying to swat down the baseless moral panic once we started having more clarity on the shape of the risk—and being told, a lot, to stay in my lane.

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Feb 2021

      It makes sense to be extra cautious at first when facing a murky, exponential threat. But if we don't then adjust the communication and the rules as the shape of the risk becomes clearer & have proper trade-off discussions, we get fatigue, non-compliance and *more risk* not less.

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Feb 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted  💚 Jens-Petter Salvesen  🌍

      This is what I'd expect. It's been a year and I am not aware of a single outdoor-only superspreader event. It's not impossible but after a year, it seems low enough risk that I don't really worry about it until we get one.https://twitter.com/jpsalvesen/status/1363512609924866049 …

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       💚 Jens-Petter Salvesen  🌍 @jpsalvesen
      Replying to @zeynep
      Data point: Students in Bergen, Norway had their start-of -the-year party indoors in a basement, out of sight. Major cluster. Oslo students partied outdoors. Major news coverage but no major cluster traced. (But later on, they hid indoors and are now lonely w remote learning)
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    9. Jemison Thorsby‏ @jemisonthorsby 21 Feb 2021
      Replying to @zeynep

      Was trying to get a sense of whether the Sturgis rally qualified, but hard to get a definitive answer on how many cases stem from there, and whether there was a lot of indoor activity at the rally. Do you have an opinion on what happened there?

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Feb 2021
      Replying to @jemisonthorsby

      There was a huge indoor component to the event.

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        1. Zora  🗺‏ @zora_dawn 21 Feb 2021
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          Yes! Many participants posted pictures inside super crowded bars, no 😷 of course!

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