This piece by @zeynep is right on. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/how-public-health-messaging-backfired/618147/ …pic.twitter.com/xKTEvmD5hH
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This piece by @zeynep is right on. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/how-public-health-messaging-backfired/618147/ …pic.twitter.com/xKTEvmD5hH
“it’s almost as if we’ve “designed a public-health response most suitable for higher-income” groups and the “Twitter generation”—stay home; have your groceries delivered; focus on the behaviors you can photograph and shame online.”
I would say another problem here that @zeynep does not address is the role of epidemiological modeling in public communication and policy about this disease. Modeling is a blunt instrument that bases its conclusions primarily on math and binary models of human behavior.
(Also I wrote an article about modeling and how it works and how it does not very early on: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-models-arent-supposed-be-right/609271/ …)
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