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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Jun 2021

      Almost ~39,000 retweets and ~140,000 likes for the *least informative* part of the message for the *vaccinated.* The problem isn't extra caution (go ahead!) but that we're not focusing on the people under the real threat: billions of unvaccinated people with no access to one.pic.twitter.com/5BaSiskenN

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Jun 2021

      Given this is Twitter, here's my piece from mid-May on why we should have kept indoor mask mandates longer. (Again, please read it: the focus not really about the threat to the vaccinated).https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/opinion/coronavirus-masks-vaccines.html …

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Jun 2021

      Also, my piece from May warning about Delta (feel free to compare with what else was being said and was prominent in media and social media around that time).https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/opinion/covid-vaccine-variants.html …

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Jun 2021

      Twitter retirement date, maybe: when people accusing me of Not Following The Science™ for downplaying masks for the benefit of the vaccinated numerically outnumber people accusing me of Not Following The Science™ for advocating for masks for all before the CDC and the WHO.😃

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Jun 2021

      But the serious part: Vaccines that can save lives and turn this disease into a pre-pandemic baseline risk are available but in dire short-supply. We'de not putting in *everything we can* into solve this. Every day that passes is dramatically narrowing the window of any impact.

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Jun 2021

      That's my objection to the lopsided attention to vaccine breakthrough cases for the immunocompetent, without same attention to the accompanying part: not only are they few, they're overwhelmingly asymptomatic or mild. Billions around the world deserve this. And there's no time.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Jun 2021

      It's been hours and this is still bothering me. Billions have no access to vaccines and are facing a terrible new variant that's highly transmissible and likely more severe, and yet one vaccine breakthrough case that's barely noticeable to the person gets this much attention.pic.twitter.com/8Z4DerznzW

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        2. Matt Beaugard‏ @BeaugardMatt 30 Jun 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          People love negative news.

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        3. Douglas 'Skoryy' Hayden‏ @SpyralPegacyon 30 Jun 2021
          Replying to @BeaugardMatt @zeynep

          Confirmation bias and anxiety are easy mode for clout.

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        1. Dick Davis‏ @CAWPERinChief 30 Jun 2021
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          Like most innovation distribution is a problem.

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        1. Ma vie de zèbre • A-Danielle G.  💉 💉 💉‏ @ADanGrenier 30 Jun 2021
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          Thank you for mentioning the "immunocompetent" as so many forget the immunocompromised. Agree that vaccine distribution is our biggest problem. Kind of like that the message that vaccinates people still can give & get COVID is being shared though, as it makes them more careful.

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        2. NK Leb‏ @NickytaLeb 30 Jun 2021
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          It gets attention because people have been told that the vaccines prevent infection and transmission. Notice that in other countries/languages where the vaccines have not been sold as conferring sterilizing immunity, there are fewer of such tweets.

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        3. Rufus Spivey Green‏ @RufusSG 30 Jun 2021
          Replying to @NickytaLeb @zeynep

          But even ignoring Delta for a moment, is sterilising immunity alone necessary to prevent transmission? And how would these individual example invalidate the concept of the vaccines reducing transmission at all?

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        1. Flying Camel‏ @flyingcamel43 30 Jun 2021
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          Flying Camel Retweeted Andy Slavitt  🇺🇸 💉

          PH officials have created a group of irrational COVID-phobic individuals incapable of understanding risk and probability. Until that is corrected, this mania will continue - PH officials need a radical change in messaging such as this one:https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1407892425889046531 …

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          Andy Slavitt  🇺🇸 💉Verified account @ASlavitt
          If you’re vaccinated, the most important thing you can do right now is go live your best life & make up for lost time. There are far greater threats in your life than the Delta variant.
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        1. Ing‏ @ing_sykes 30 Jun 2021
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          'Likely more severe'? How is this presenting?

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        2. Hapless Dark Star‏ @ColdDimSum 30 Jun 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          The vaccinated are already the cautious ones. More likely to still be masking indoors, etc. But in the US a majority of the unvaccinated think it’s all a stupid hoax and just a cold.

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        3. Bob Blaskiewicz‏ @rjblaskiewicz 30 Jun 2021
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          Those people are taxing my empathy.

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