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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 26 Feb 2021

      Dr. Fauci, today: “It’s backed by common sense. If you have two vaccinated people and they want to get together.. You can get start getting [together].. even though the risk is not zero, the risk becomes extremely low when you've both parties vaccinated.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA3ZfIEB22M …

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Feb 2021

      Do note there's no contradiction between keeping up public precautions—just the sociology of it: not good to have two classes of people for public behavior—while simultaneously expanding private behavior. If anything, I expect these to support each other. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/how-public-health-messaging-backfired/618147/ …pic.twitter.com/fkCBW68AeX

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Feb 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Bill

      Presymptomatic transmission & atypical clinical presentation. This was, indeed, much like SARS (overdispersed, aerosols important) *except* with SARS, fever & infectiousness overlapped. That info is what convinced me in January of 2020 we'd get a pandemic.https://twitter.com/BillFoto3/status/1365411548068511749 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Bill @BillFoto3
      Replying to @BillFoto3 @zeynep @MC_of_A
      Prior knowledge or educated assumptions, especially by April 2020, seemed to be almost entirely accurate. I don't think I've read a single article where one of the assumptions scientists and health officials made based on prior knowledge was just flat wrong, but I may be mistaken
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Feb 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Lauren Pelley

      Yes, please. Should have done this since last spring.https://twitter.com/LaurenPelley/status/1365655101914968068 …

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      Lauren PelleyVerified account @LaurenPelley
      “If you gave people that opportunity to do things appropriately outside, how many cases would you then save from indoor activity?" asks @zchagla. @adamsmiller explores why it may be time to allow lower-risk outdoor gatherings to ward off pandemic fatigue: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/coronavirus-risk-canada-weather-1.5930135 …
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Feb 2021

      A fascinating historical point on how the US public health authorities dragged their feet on providing sterile needles/exchanges during the HIV pandemic because "we don't know" if it works. Need to reread that history with a new perspective. Recs welcome. https://zeynep.substack.com/p/pandemic-lessons-for-the-future-open/comments …pic.twitter.com/eWGI1q4ntJ

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Feb 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Gregg Gonsalves

      It's 2021—and lawmakers are still trying to ban needle-exchanges.🤬This is why we must learn from the mistakes of past & current pandemics (I'm the child of an addict who essentially died from it—I don't have naive or simplistic thoughts about addiction).https://twitter.com/gregggonsalves/status/1365711828182065152 …

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      Gregg GonsalvesVerified account @gregggonsalves
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      Well @zeynep sadly we are not done with those struggles. West Virginia about to ban needle exchange despite HIV outbreaks in the state. It’s a scandal, it’s an outrage that we’re still fighting this shit. https://mountainstatespotlight.org/2021/02/21/morgantown-shows-how-syringe-exchanges-save-lives-but-a-bill-before-the-west-virginia-legislature-would-outlaw-them/ …
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Feb 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      I want to put this out here (because the article is long and I don't expect everyone to read it). I would not relax any indoor rules right now—if anything, I think they can be more strict (with support for those who have to work indoors/remain closed).https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1365717999974514689 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Replying to @zeynep @RRcandid @ashishkjha
      So my wish is for the CDC to tell us: guidelines/risk comparisons for: private behavior among vaccinated people and private behavior for vaccinated people around unvaccinated people *and* distinguish outdoor/indoor rules. Public NPIs for indoor? I'd make them *more* strict now.😬
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Feb 2021

      Vaccines will/should allow expanded private behaviors for the vaccinated and we should be more chill and encouraging of outdoors is not only compatible with, is supportive of the idea that we should be MORE *on guard* indoors while we vaccinate and outrun the variants spreading.pic.twitter.com/HK677CbBZj

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Feb 2021

      Is this all still relevant? Yes. London News today: "Crowds flock to parks and beaches despite Covid-19 warning from top scientists." Look at the pics! (Also UK had a "eat out to help out" plan subsidizing INDOOR dining—no take-out allowed—they may reportedly bring back soon).pic.twitter.com/vWAtAUhctE

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    10. Ian Hobson‏ @ianandbike 27 Feb 2021
      Replying to @zeynep

      In my timeline this was up next. Quite the wrong message!pic.twitter.com/ppK0uh1bxT

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Feb 2021
      Replying to @ianandbike

      Heh, yeah. Go for a walk! Get some fresh air and exercise! The weather seems good right now, no?

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        2. Tarek Milleron‏ @TarekMilleron 27 Feb 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @ianandbike

          Your piling on UC Berkeley clamping down *temporarily* on an alarming outbreak by also including outdoor activities is flat wrong. Beach shaming is real but also your straw man. SS events clearly must occur in outdoor markets, traffic jams in Manaus, Iquitos, etc.

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