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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 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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    2. 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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    3. 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 …

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      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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Feb 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Richard Engel

      One year ago today. I’m not blaming him—it is true, that was the overwhelming message. We can and should stop being behind transitions and start acting/adjusting ahead of or with them. Matters for the endgame, too.https://twitter.com/RichardEngel/status/1232770729290035202 …

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      Richard EngelVerified account @RichardEngel
      Don’t panic. Doctors/ virologists I’m speaking to say 98% of people will be fine, even if they get Covid-19. They expect it will go around the world, but that most people who get it will be a little sick, then recover. The danger is to vulnerable people. Hospitals/ old age homes.
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Feb 2021

      It was one year ago yesterday I published an article urging people to get ready, trying to explain flattening the curve, etc. because I was so frustrated with lack of advice on how and why to prepare. So I'm advocating for getting ready for transitions—not optimism or pessimism.pic.twitter.com/eBgFmrKknq

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Feb 2021

      We often get shoehorned into inappropriate binaries. Optimist or pessimist? (I'll admit being an optimist personality-wise but my analytical interests are usually the opposite: I'm on the lookout for what can go wrong). The interesting questions we face don't fit into binaries.

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Mar 2021

      TIL from @joshgans response to my article: Medical community *opposed* teaching kids 1-4 how to swim because... it would make the parents complacent. Meanwhile, in real life, lessons at that age is associated with an ~88% reduction in drowning risk. https://joshuagans.substack.com/p/optimal-anxiety …pic.twitter.com/ejBRE1tGVn

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    10. Joshua Gans‏Verified account @joshgans 1 Mar 2021
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      It has been stuck in my memory. The amazing thing is that they keep on saying that there is “no evidence” that swimming lessons save lives!

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Mar 2021
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      Amazing how the evidentiary standards shift when it comforts the authorities. Implement needle exchanges? "No, where's the RCT?" Teach kids to swim to protect against drowning? "Here's some theory I made up". Of course swimming helps against drowning.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4151293/ …

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        1. Joshua Gans‏Verified account @joshgans 1 Mar 2021
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          The amazing thing that it has been 20 years since Laurie Lawrence first threw a 2 year old into a pool and it is still the same line!

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        2. Brett Bobley‏ @brettbobley 1 Mar 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @joshgans

          An economist once told me we shouldn't allow cars to have air bags because people would become complacent and drive extra fast because they thought the air bags made them invulnerable.

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        3. Josh‏ @JDG_1980 2 Mar 2021
          Replying to @brettbobley @zeynep @joshgans

          Here's a 1985 LA Times article which attributes this argument to the automotive industry. I'm sure they were able to find/hire a tame economist to parrot it.https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-02-19-mn-546-story.html …

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