Browsed for a moment at my own tweets from early March 2020 and ugh, it's terrible.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1235294145134067714 …
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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 …Show this thread -
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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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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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 …
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@zeynep, why are you doing this to yourself? It’s completely retraumatizing.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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You succeeded often enough! Colleague and I canceled an early-March 2020 trip to interview an elderly actor because we didn’t want to risk the death of a widely-beloved person. Emotionally hard, ethically very easy. (We eventually interviewed over Zoom.)
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That sounds like a wise decision! Thank you!
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