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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 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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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Mar 2021

      This logic of denying safety devices/tools or tiered information or better guidelines to ordinary people against terrible outcomes they *would* like to avoid because of fears of "risk compensation" or "false sense of security" is.. almost always bunk *and* counterproductive.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Mar 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      Randomized trials are amazing and necessary for many things, but what gets implemented without them (despite no evidence) and what doesn't (despite tons of other kinds of strong evidence) is often.. a function of what the authorities feel comfortable with.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1366385652636475394 …

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      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Replying to @joshgans
      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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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Mar 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Covid One Year Ago

      Painful account to follow, but important to learn from what actually happened.https://twitter.com/YearCovid/status/1366400080098459654 …

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      Covid One Year Ago @YearCovid
      29 Feb 2020 "You do NOT need to get or wear any face masks- surgical masks, N95 masks, respirator masks, or anything else- to protect yourself against the coronavirus. Not only do you not need them, you shouldn’t wear them" https://web.archive.org/web/20200301071220if_/https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2020/02/29/no-you-do-not-need-face-masks-for-coronavirus-they-might-increase-your-infection-risk/ … pic.twitter.com/LAPLU89tfy
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Mar 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Pete Muntean

      This is amazing. This should happen everywhere in the world. I wish we actively celebrated these moving moments. This isn’t just some routine event. Vaccines are about as close to an earthly miracle as it gets. And we got them so fast for COVID.https://twitter.com/petemuntean/status/1366442688296456192 …

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      BREAKING: The first @UPS truck carrying the Johnson & Johnson vaccine just arrived at the Worldport hub in Louisville. More trucks carrying the vaccine will arrive throughout the day. Deliveries start TOMORROW. pic.twitter.com/Aud092wQ24
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Mar 2021

      Every time I go on media and say the obvious: outdoors IS safer with much less risk of superspreading (I don't know of a single confirmed outdoor-only mass transmission event) many people object and say Rose Garden! Sturgis! Neither were outdoor only. The price of misinformation.

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Mar 2021

      The immediate backlash to pointing out the most basic, most obvious thing after a whole year—yes, yes, please go outdoors, but do avoid especially poorly-ventilated, crowded indoors—is a tragic confirmation of what I'm trying to say. We have not informed and empowered people.

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Mar 2021

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      We have pictures from the White House cluster—it was a multi-day process with multiple maskless (!) indoor components. We have papers from the Sturgis rally—what infection we did find was indoors. Outdoor transmission isn't impossible, but relatively rare.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1363522936431345666 …

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      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      To the people telling me about the Sturgis rally. Forget the trad/social media moral panic—and the speculative reporting & headlines. We have actual papers. The event had a huge indoor component & what spread we do know happened in restaurants/workplaces. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6947e1.htm#T1_down … pic.twitter.com/cD8jDxLZpM
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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Mar 2021

      Such widespread misinformation—not distinguishing the much safer outdoors from the highest risk environments: poorly-ventilated indoors and explaining why—has a great cost because if people don't know how to keep themselves safer, they cannot keep themselves safer. Tragic.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Mar 2021
      Replying to @mattyglesias

      It's been a year! If congestion is a problem, limit congestion. Outdoors, sunny, walking is a safer configuration. (I'd hold off on a packed stadium with a low ceiling, for example: chanting plus weird aerodynamics. Walking outside masked? Very hard to make that high risk).

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        2. Dr. Jonathan Kay‏ @JonPKay 2 Mar 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @mattyglesias

          Not that you are wrong about this (i agree with you), but don't the cherry blossoms draw in tourists from out of the area who need to stay in hotels and eat in restaurants? So by shutting down what they can control, they are trying to limit the pressure in other areas.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Mar 2021
          Replying to @JonPKay @mattyglesias

          If that's a concern... You address that, not the safest part of the whole thing. If travel/hotels aren't safe, regulate that. If restaurants aren't safe, don't open them. It's beyond ridiculous to ban the safest part of an event while indoor dining is open.

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        1. Andrea Luna‏ @andrea_luna_96 2 Mar 2021
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          If I need advice, I'll look to the experts.

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