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 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 @YearCovid29 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/LAPLU89tfy8 replies 89 retweets 282 likesShow this thread -
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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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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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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zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
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 @zeynepTo 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/cD8jDxLZpMShow this thread4 replies 35 retweets 234 likesShow this thread -
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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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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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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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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But NPS does not regulate any of those.
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