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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 3 Oct 2021

      Excellent point from @jljcolorado. “Droplets on surfaces is very convenient for people in power - all of the responsibility is on the individual... OTOH, if you admit it is airborne, institutions, governments and companies have to do something.” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/every-medical-authority-failed-realise-covid-airborne-late/ …pic.twitter.com/d7znKRBFzv

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2021

      One of the jobs going forward is to treat air the way we treat water: if you do not have access to clean water, that's a failure and a scandal of infrastructure. Now that, finally, airborne transmission of respiratory illnesses is increasingly understood, we can reduce them all.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2021

      Too much of our pandemic response focused on individual responsibility: "just stay home" (what about those who cannot?), "wash your hands" (what about the shared air?), (belated) "wear a mask" (great, but how about providing better ones?), "get tested" (good luck on your own!)...

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2021

      These failures worsen other failures: if the authorities aren't seen as trustworthy (denying airborne transmission, for example), people end up seeking information on other things on their own, too, and everything gets confusing. People can fall prey to cranks and misinformation.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2021

      I increasingly see people willing to believe things are so bad because this is a superzombieantigencalifragilisticexpialidocious virus, with extraordinary properties. Tragically, as @michaelmina_lab says, it's a straightforward, almost textbook virus. The failure is the response.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2021

          Someone asked so what I *actually* wrote in the NYT in response to CDC change in mask rules in May 2021:"I’d tell [employers] to keep up the mask rules indoors and pay attention to ventilation, regardless of vaccination status." I thought it was too early. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/opinion/coronavirus-masks-vaccines.html …pic.twitter.com/DjNBFmPg01

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2021

          Also my article at the end of May, warning about Delta, as soon as the initial data made it clear this wasn't a "scariant" (remember: variants are many, but only two have caused a real challenge). Title: "Covid's deadliest phase may be here soon." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/opinion/covid-vaccine-variants.html …pic.twitter.com/Tp07qnKkiH

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2021

          I wrote a warning article about one other variant, once, what we know call Alpha, in December of 2020. I don't think it's useful to sound equal alarms about everything. That adds to the cacophony and the fatigue. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/12/virus-mutation-catastrophe/617531/ …pic.twitter.com/uqMNlKvYmc

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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2021

          Can one be an early mask advocate, argue for indoor masks while cases high, see airborne transmission as key mitigation target, oppose outdoor mask *mandates* (not wearing) and beach pic fixation, view transmissible variants as a challenge and believe vaccines as key way forward?

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        2. QuixCap‏ @QuixxxCap 3 Oct 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @michaelmina_lab

          Very frustrating. I've seen many restaurants during the pandemic who wouldn't simply keep the front & back doors open. They'll clean all surfaces every half hour like speed freaks with OCD, but they won't take a cost-free step to actually reduce transmission.

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        3. Nerds ‘R’ Us‏ @ohnerdgirl 3 Oct 2021
          Replying to @QuixxxCap @zeynep @michaelmina_lab

          Because insects and vermin can get in through the open doors. And no one could stand to stay there in the summer without AC.

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        2. cbergenholtz‏ @justsomeoneDK 3 Oct 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @michaelmina_lab

          I've probably missed it - is there a good piece explaining how any textbook Coronavirus that one encounters for the first time as an adult would lead to long-Covid, increased risk of liver-damage etc.?

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2021
          Replying to @justsomeoneDK @michaelmina_lab

          A piece on that. A novel virus we encounter first time as adults is really dangerous, not necessarily because the virus has extraordinary properties compared with other viruses, but exactly because it is novel to our immune system. (Why vaccines work!)https://www.theinsight.org/p/novelty-means-severity-the-key-to …

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        1. Double Individual Speculator‏ @x2IndSpeculator 3 Oct 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @michaelmina_lab

          Have you read any studies about #SARS2 properties at all? If you had, you wouldn't write this.

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        2. Deepti Gurdasani‏ @dgurdasani1 3 Oct 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @michaelmina_lab

          I don't think we can extrapolate from non-SARS CoVs to SARS-CoV-2. It clearly has unique properties that are concerning- including the superantigen, rapid adaptation to higher transmissibility, severity & escape. Induction of auto-antibodies, long term persistence in tissues.

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        3. Deepti Gurdasani‏ @dgurdasani1 3 Oct 2021
          Replying to @dgurdasani1 @zeynep @michaelmina_lab

          Infection, and damage of multiple organs. Neurotropism, neuro-degeneration even in people with mild illness. Long-term T cell dysregulation in people with long COVID. What other virus do you know that does that?

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