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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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepSxSW 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 …Show this thread4 replies 5 retweets 63 likesShow this thread -
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepHaving 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 …Show this thread2 replies 3 retweets 49 likesShow this thread -
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March 1st, 2020.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1234113514354225152 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepCan'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.Show this thread2 replies 27 retweets 138 likesShow this thread -
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This is why I don't really have an "anniversary" moment in March.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1234858603917516800 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepThat’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 …Show this thread1 reply 5 retweets 69 likesShow this thread -
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It was not a good February/March here.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1236307682660843521 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepSimilar 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 …1 reply 8 retweets 51 likesShow this thread -
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepReplying to @mattdpearceIt 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.1 reply 3 retweets 38 likesShow this thread -
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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 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepI 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 …Show this thread6 replies 9 retweets 112 likesShow this thread -
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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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