I am not often wowed on Twitter in this direction (very positive). Zeynep says what I've been trying to preach to anyone who will listen "We are being epistemologically over-confident" (e.g. masks, NPIs) which leads to "lack of curiosity/research" (e.g. seasonality)https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1378757555820888070 …
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She also claimed yesterday that the hypothesis that masks might increase spread due to overestimation of their protective power was "thoroughly debunked", without citing any sources The blue checks still won't question the evidence on maskshttps://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1377992014244028420?s=19 …
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Because that thesis has come up for four decades against every safety device, has been thoroughly debunked every time, and also came up this time, and got data debunked again, I wrote it in papers and articles, and am writing more. At some point, I can't keep tweeting against it.
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Zeynep, you're saying the community masking of healthy people (e.g. kids for 5 hours in cloth masks) cannot possibly increase infections? This has been debunked? I have not seen anything like that. Can you point me to it? What I saw was this from the WHO and NIH (both in 2020).pic.twitter.com/L5DujxzOF2
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Yes the below had been thoroughly debunked. +https://twitter.com/Scott_in_BK/status/1378816617094782978 …
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Scott @Scott_in_BKReplying to @Hold2LLCShe also claimed yesterday that the hypothesis that masks might increase spread due to overestimation of their protective power was "thoroughly debunked", without citing any sources The blue checks still won't question the evidence on masks https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1377992014244028420?s=19 …3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
And that WHO committee report laundry lists everything, and those are studies of medical workers in medical settings. Yes, by all means, a person working in an Ebola ward could self-infect through inappropriate doffing. Not applicable to NO masks—clearly and obviously worse.
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There are questions and issues. But not those.
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