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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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 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepTons 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/va8ACEgGCwShow this thread8 replies 26 retweets 213 likesShow this thread -
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 …
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Albert Pinto @70sBachchanReplying to @zeynepNYTimes 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 likesShow this thread -
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 …
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Covid One Year Ago @YearCovid2 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/TpeIKXmYRTShow this thread3 replies 36 retweets 160 likesShow this thread -
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 …
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Zach DespartVerified account @zachdespartThe 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 likesShow this thread -
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.
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With such a short wait until vaccines are widely available, this is the *least* logical time to start doing risky things. With prudence, chances of avoiding infection altogether would be very high
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Yeah, exactly. Last one to die in a war...
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