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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Mar 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      Browsed for a moment at my own tweets from early March 2020 and ugh, it's terrible.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1235294145134067714 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Yet, here we are at the cusp of perhaps significant spread in the US and there aren't enough masks even for health care workers, testing is still not there, firefighters are responding to cases with no protective gear and getting infected, and we're trailing in all measures. Ugh.
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Mar 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      Ugh.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1236053244515962881 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      SxSW is cancelled. To try to understand what it took for China to slow the spread after they covered up and delayed for weeks, imagine closing down practically the whole country. It will take two, three months of such drastic action to contain it. We’re now in similar denial. https://twitter.com/sxsw/status/1236048680337182724 …
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Mar 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      Ugh and ugh.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1236387446415413250 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Having so few known cases to many deaths is a terrible sign. If this were all there was, it would imply a case fatality ratio of 5%—higher than any place. In fact, we simply don't know where the cases are and how many and we are likely missing deaths, too. https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1236383802420686848 …
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Mar 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      March 1st, 2020.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1234113514354225152 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Can't imagine a worse way to handle the mask situation to simultaneously tell people they don't need masks *and* that health-care workers very much need masks so people shouldn't buy them. People aren't idiots. It's the age of mistrust already. Truth and transparency work better.
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Mar 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      This is why I don't really have an "anniversary" moment in March.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1234858603917516800 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      That’s right. Cat is out of the bag. We probably will not contain this in the US but we can mitigate. We have to do what we can to slow spread in order to preserve hospital capacity for the elderly and other vulnerable populations. But it’s here. https://twitter.com/drmattmccarthy/status/1234833720424697862 …
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Mar 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      It was not a good February/March here.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1236307682660843521 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Similar crisis to the terrible climate change coverage that helped get us where we are. Too many political reporters focus on reporting on the "sides" and narrative wars, rather than doing the actual job of analyzing what's actually going on. https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1236306434490609665 …
      11:28 AM - 7 Mar 2021
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      • The Plant Collector 🪴 James Lewis Laura says every covid death is a policy failure Timothy Lune Rajat Paharia Bonny 🎀 Loo 🚽 Jack Sealfon Adam Kunicki 🇺🇸🇵🇱 Jack Spratt
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Mar 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          And anyway...https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1236291910366609415 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
          Replying to @mattdpearce
          It is tough. Pandemics are systemic risks, and systemic risk is hard to communicate. That's also why I was so concerned by the early widespread "it's just like the flu, just a bit worse" messaging! We wasted months, and this is true across the political spectrum.
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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Mar 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          I spent so much of February early March trying to convince people around me to stop traveling, that canceling conferences/working from home was the right move and we needed to preserve hospital capacity for the incoming surge.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1234552411416678402 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
          I logged onto Facebook for the first time in days and groups are full of people asking about travel. It’s unconscionable that there is no public messaging. The World Health Organization recommends people over 60 or with other conditions to avoid crowds. https://twitter.com/drtedros/status/1233695157888987137 …
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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Mar 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jenna Beacom, M.Ed

          Wrong is fine. Happens. Assess and move on. What's telling is the "follow the science" heckling from people with "#wearamask" bios because I say.. outdoors is safer. Same energy shouting at me because I said wear a mask in March, 2020. Science as talisman.https://twitter.com/jfbeacom/status/1368643595033513984 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Jenna Beacom, M.Ed @jfbeacom
          Replying to @zeynep
          I know this is over-optimistic but I have this tiny glimmer of hope that people will notice who was right and who was wrong a year ago, and draw some conclusions from that.
          3 replies 13 retweets 147 likes
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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Mar 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          That's the tragedy. There's no magic. The papers were there. We had the trifecta we needed know to help contain this in February of 2020—that it spread before symptoms emerged (unlike SARS) and that it was airborne and superspreading driven (like SARS). https://twitter.com/R0g3rM3xic0/status/1368646795329409028 …

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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Mar 2021

          I'm not saying containing a pandemic would have been easy under any conditions. It's a huge challenge. The human cost was always going to be terrible. But we didn't do a good job helping ourselves minimize the loss and suffering even when we could have. That's an added tragedy.

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        7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Mar 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted MrCheeze

          Yeah, interesting question. On the one hand, I do support moving away from place-of-origin names. Sometimes it's fine, but often it's not. On the other hand, after making note of a key difference—presymptomatic transmission—SARS/MERS lessons were crucial.https://twitter.com/MrCheeze_/status/1368650726457638912 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          MrCheeze @MrCheeze_
          Replying to @zeynep
          I still can't believe that "try to hide that this is the new SARS" was actual policy. pic.twitter.com/zr7VgNGuQx
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