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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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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For my money, it’s those who write, publish, and disseminate junk like this who do more damage.https://twitter.com/TheEliKlein/status/1368384604596494340 …
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Conversely, hanging out with pitchers in the back room of the Sturgis bars was…well, I wonder how many of them did die? Or the Ocean Drive places. Or
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