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    1. 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 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

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      Pete MunteanVerified account @petemuntean
      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
      13 replies 187 retweets 1,027 likes
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    2. 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.

      15 replies 113 retweets 612 likes
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    3. 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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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Mar 2021

      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 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      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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    5. 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.

      9 replies 71 retweets 338 likes
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Mar 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      Sometimes people say why are you beating the outdoors drum? Doesn't everyone know? I wish. I mean this happened just yesterday. I go on any broadcast medium to say outdoors *is* safer, I get flooded by people who say "how dare you" and who have no idea.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1366520460138213380 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Tons of people are pinging me about it, so here goes. Whatever @Laurie_Garrett has just claimed on TV, there was a huge indoor component to the White House event that ended up being a cluster. We have reports *and* pictures so not hard to get the facts straight. @NicolleDWallace https://twitter.com/BestOLuck/status/1366516272918368260 … pic.twitter.com/va8ACEgGCw
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Mar 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Albert Pinto

      Yes. Photograph choice matters. Beaches, parks, the photogenic outdoor portion of an event that was part of a multi-day process with many unmasked *indoors* meetings and a reception... This isn't how we inform people.https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1366743396925272065 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Albert Pinto @70sBachchan
      Replying to @zeynep
      NYTimes literally changed the cover image in this story from the one with Amy Coney Barrett inside the indoors WH reception room (where infections happened) to the one with everyone seated outdoors! https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1312914439520346114 …
      2 replies 26 retweets 207 likes
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Mar 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Covid One Year Ago

      So the below happened *after* we already saw exponential growth outside of China—Italy, South Korea, Iran.. Exponential growth gets harder & harder to curb, so those weeks mattered. Transitions are crucial: by the time everything is obvious, it's too late.https://twitter.com/YearCovid/status/1366756679837097985 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Covid One Year Ago @YearCovid
      2 Mar 2020 NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio encourages New Yorkers "to go on with your lives + get out on the town despite Coronavirus". The NYC health commissioner advises: "use the subway, take the bus... covid-19 is not an illness that can be easily spread through casual contact” pic.twitter.com/TpeIKXmYRT
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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Mar 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Zach Despart

      It's too early to open up everything and stop wearing masks in public—again especially indoors. Why risk so many people when we are so so close? On the other hand, yeah, *do* go outdoors and provide better safety for the workers who can't just "stay home".https://twitter.com/zachdespart/status/1366840400875556871 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Zach DespartVerified account @zachdespart
      The COVID messaging from Texas and Harris County gov't could not be more different right now: @LinaHidalgoTX: Stay home at all times except for essential errands! @GregAbbott_TX: No mask order, all businesses back open to 100%! Who will people listen to? https://twitter.com/zachdespart/status/1366837856778526720 …
      16 replies 82 retweets 310 likes
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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Mar 2021

      Vaccines ARE great, but unvaccinated people aren't any more protected then yesterday because we just don't have enough community coverage—yet. But we are moving there so fast. This one-size-fits-all, too-early, too reckless rush to "open" up is senseless.

      15 replies 76 retweets 381 likes
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Mar 2021

      Look, we may be avoiding a fourth "surge" because of increasing pace of vaccinations, but *some* unvaccinated people will get infected if indoor restrictions are completely lifted and masks no longer worn indoors. The vaccine supply is about to go way way up. Just.. no.pic.twitter.com/CsSNDJ23Dz

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Mar 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Nishant Deshpande

          Folks who are fully vaccinated: guidance on how they are safer and what they can do with other vaccinated folk. Outdoors? Please, go do more outdoors. Indoor/public stuff? Be more strict until broader vaccination coverage which is really around the corner.https://twitter.com/deshpn/status/1366863126113570817 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Nishant Deshpande @deshpn
          Replying to @zeynep
          Lots of people are hurting due to the lockdowns - in many ways - as you have said previously. When should we open up? Do you have a set of criteria in mind? The harm caused by not opening shouldn't surpass harm caused by opening.
          9 replies 33 retweets 192 likes
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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Mar 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Steve Kopack

          Here it is! (Reportedly!)https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/1366895728694611973 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Steve KopackVerified account @SteveKopack
          .@NBCNews: The CDC is set to release new guidelines on Thursday for Americans who have been fully vaccinated that say it’s OK for them to gather in small groups indoors with other people who have also been fully vaccinated, without wearing masks.
          9 replies 14 retweets 155 likes
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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Mar 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted CNN

          This will never end. We can have 3000 million more epidemiological studies but they’ll still be shaming people for the what are probably the safest possible activities in a pandemic due to a respiratory pathogen. ht @jwitkerhttps://twitter.com/CNN/status/1371397016530599937 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          CNNVerified account @CNN
          US Covid-19 cases have flattened. Here's why that may predict another surge, expert says https://cnn.it/3eFaaEo  pic.twitter.com/cq9A08NK48
          24 replies 128 retweets 833 likes
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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Mar 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Travis Dhanraj

          After a full, difficult year, people find possibly the safest possible way to socialize: outdoors in a big park. Reporter: wait, I can see it.https://twitter.com/Travisdhanraj/status/1375893648827629574 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          0:19
          Travis DhanrajVerified account @Travisdhanraj
          Is the pandemic over and no one told me?? Was just sent this...scene at Trinity Bellwoods Park right now #Onpoli #COVID19 #TOPoli pic.twitter.com/r0K37uWUwX
          22 replies 90 retweets 756 likes
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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Apr 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted James Bont

          Guess I'll be updating this thread for the next decade. LA opening restaurants etc., so let's put a picture of a vast beach that looks just about the safest place. Worse, this is LA, can't even make up some story about travel to the beach causing the risk.https://twitter.com/jamesbont/status/1377400019062452225?s=20 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          James Bont @jamesbont
          Replying to @zeynep
          You would think the L.A. Times, of all papers, would have given up this practice by now, but here we are. pic.twitter.com/pkAYRWxXBr
          8 replies 36 retweets 220 likes
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        7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Apr 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Richard Hanania

          Belgian police breaking up young people hanging out at... a park. A big, vast park. We’re more than a year in. We know where transmission primarily occurs and how. (Young ones are being encouraged to hang out indoors, I guess, where they won’t risk being trampled by horses.)https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1378455984549425153 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          1:34
          Richard Hanania @RichardHanania
          Belgian police go wild on kids hanging out in a park because it’s April 2021 and European governments are still too stupid to understand how a respiratory disease works, and confident enough in their ignorance to crush their people. pic.twitter.com/6m7nYeKJ8B
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        8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Apr 2021

          I'm beginning to wonder if I'm being personally-trolled here, as an experiment. This is by CNN, bringing you the important news about the pandemic with visuals that highlight the acute problem. h/t @PatrickFIanaganpic.twitter.com/zr6b7wnM3V

          17 replies 19 retweets 234 likes
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        9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Apr 2021

          For those wondering how incorrect guidelines still block better pandemic mitigations: Despite Dr. Wen's heroic attempt here to divert, the incorrect description (basically copied from guidelines) helps drive the beach panic. If that were true, yeah indoor/outdoor would be same.pic.twitter.com/NAp4dVtgIV

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        1. Jim Bonbright‏ @3rdandKing 2 Mar 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          It seems that, on average, our citizens are fairly stupid about things that should be common sense. Wearing masks, the much lower risk of outdoor transmission, the folly of re-opening *indoor* group activities such as dining ALL have an intuitive answer. Still, we persist.

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        1. StanMcHale‏ @StanMcHale 2 Mar 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          This will be interesting study in human behavior. Those most likely to go maskless and frequent unsafe environments were probably already engaging in risky behavior. Many of those had already contracted COVID. I don’t know. Important to keep other 80% of population vigilant.

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