Ah, neat letter addressing some of the conflations about distance and particle size that the last year, finally, made clearer about transmission mechanisms.https://twitter.com/linseymarr/status/1397352927799484418 …
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To talk of a theme many seem to be focused on this week, about a year ago we were getting confident "fact-check" declarations from authorities on how airborne transmission wasn't a thing except in rare medical procedures. Progress can be messy but it happens and is a good thing.
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Anyway, more reporting and research that looks at the world as we observe it, and less motivated reasoning which we are all prone to, is essential to this kind of progress. Honestly, pretty amazing we manage this at all—an uphill battle, given what we're all susceptible to.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Kimberly D. (Vaxxed/Masked. COVID19 Disinfo=BLOCK)
Or it might have completely backfired? "Trump said it so it must be completely wrong" seems to be a widespread heuristic. It's even true much of the time! Except when it's not, as it would have been in this case, and not sure that would be discerned.https://twitter.com/Heart10Looks3/status/1397736015159169031 …
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Kimberly D. (Vaxxed/Masked. COVID19 Disinfo=BLOCK) @Heart10Looks3Replying to @zeynepI feel like the progress would have been accelerated had Bob Woodward come forward with this info right away, instead of saving it for when he had a book to sell. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/10/trump-says-everyone-knew-the-coronavirus-was-airborne-in-february-its-no-big-thing.html …3 replies 4 retweets 69 likesShow this thread -
I just realized if the Feb 2020 Woodward interview where Trump says "the virus goes through the air" had become public back then, people would've been called racist, misogynist trolls for saying aerosols were crucial. (Guess he heard it from President Xi trying to warn him/us?)
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The bizarre thing and that tape is that if Trump did actually know about all of this and lied that means that every other health authority and agency in the world was also lying about what they knew at the time.
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I don’t think so. He’s just repeating something he heard, probably directly from his Chinese counterpart.
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