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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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    5. 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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    6. 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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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2021
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      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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        2. cbergenholtz‏ @justsomeoneDK 3 Oct 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @michaelmina_lab

          That is a great piece, thank you, that I've read several times. It does not document that other Coronaviruses would lead to long-Covid. I guess I am asking too much, since that kind of evidence would be very difficult to establish.

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        3. Michael Mina‏Verified account @michaelmina_lab 3 Oct 2021
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          It would be. One of the points I’ve tried to make many times is that what makes this virus special is more that it is infecting adults for their first time, not kids. We have evolved to deal w / learn pathogens safely as babies. But we are not evolved to do this as adults.

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

          "A novel virus we encounter first time as adults is really dangerous, not necessarily because the virus has extraordinary properties" Not necessarily, but novelty of exposure does not preclude the possibility of novel properties. Very surprised you seem to draw this conclusion.

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        2. Alison Nolan‏ @AlisonNolan9 3 Oct 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @justsomeoneDK @michaelmina_lab

          If it's just the novel nature of the virus that's a problem, why is the UK losing ~100 double vaccinated people a day?

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