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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. Nick Foy‏ @TheNickFoy 7 Dec 2021

      Nick Foy Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      What this data shows is that protecting already vaccinated people from infection is a really bad idea.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1468347730133192708 …

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      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      First lab results on Omicron, from @sigallab.🙏 Not great, but not as catastrophic as it could have been. Tested with 2x Pfizer, and shows, yeah, it'll cause a lot of breakthroughs. Those with vaccine *and* infection appeared much more protected: suggests boosters will work well. https://twitter.com/_b_meyer/status/1468319835012673549 …
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Dec 2021
      Replying to @TheNickFoy

      Wait what you think we should get infected after vaccination so that... we are better protected against infection after vaccination? Given sufficient supply, I'll take the vaccination route.

      24 replies 0 retweets 129 likes
    3. Emin Orhan‏ @aeminorhan 7 Dec 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @TheNickFoy

      It's cool that you made that decision for yourself in a Sisyphean effort to indefinitely delay your inevitable infection, but can your class of privileged, anxious professionals please stop taking hostage the rest of us who don't wanna make a virus the meaning of their existence

      33 replies 65 retweets 434 likes
    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Dec 2021
      Replying to @aeminorhan @TheNickFoy

      *Given sufficient supply*, why should anyone risk transmitting this to someone else when there’s a straightforward way to reduce the risk? What’s the Sisyphean effort? Nobody is storming the beaches at Normandy. There are programs for those afraid of needles, if that’s your fear?

      23 replies 2 retweets 125 likes
    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Dec 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @aeminorhan @TheNickFoy

      You guys seem to think getting infected some heroic accomplishment. I guess you live a life with so little risk or accomplishment that you’ve lost all sense of what’s actually heroic? Vaccines aren’t that scary! Even most children manage it without crying.

      52 replies 3 retweets 138 likes
    6. Eli Klein‏ @TheEliKlein 8 Dec 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @aeminorhan @TheNickFoy

      You keep bringing this conversation back to Covid vaccines, but I don’t think the main point here is about boosters. It’s about completely moving on from Covid restrictions.

      5 replies 1 retweet 101 likes
    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Dec 2021
      Replying to @TheEliKlein @aeminorhan @TheNickFoy

      Protecting people, especially the vulnerable is the best way to move on, and again, and that's what vaccines do. It's an infectious disease, and, at a minimum, elderly and the immunocompromised aren't society's leftovers.

      20 replies 3 retweets 64 likes
    8. Eli Klein‏ @TheEliKlein 8 Dec 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @aeminorhan @TheNickFoy

      I don’t see how any of this is relevant. Nobody is calling people leftovers. Elderly & immunocompromised people existed before Covid, too. All we’re saying is that we’re not going to attempt to avoid an unavoidable Coronavirus, especially when those attempts come with great harm.

      5 replies 1 retweet 73 likes
      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Dec 2021
      Replying to @TheEliKlein @aeminorhan @TheNickFoy

      They existed before and now there is a novel virus that is a great threat to them because it's novel. I mean, really? This is like saying why deploy the fire department, the house was there before. Because. There. Is. A. Fire. Now. And what's the great harm of vaccines?

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        2. Eli Klein‏ @TheEliKlein 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @aeminorhan @TheNickFoy

          Post Covid vaccination elderly & immunocompromised people face comparable risks from Covid as they have faced their entire lives… And again, who is saying there is “great harm of vaccines”?

          3 replies 0 retweets 23 likes
        3. Nick Foy‏ @TheNickFoy 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @TheEliKlein @zeynep @aeminorhan

          I have no idea what she's talking about. For the record, @zeynep, Eli and I are both vaccinated. I believe so much in the power of vaccines that at this point there should be no more harmful and useless NPIs when this PI is far more effective.

          5 replies 0 retweets 35 likes
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        1. David M‏ @ComradeDoom1 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @TheEliKlein and

          okay, so just to be clear, you're in favor of immediately and unconditionally ending all society-wide NPIs? you're just saying that you want the vulnerable to get vaccinated?

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        2. Aaron Astor‏ @AstorAaron 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @TheEliKlein and

          Not really sure where the argument is here. I'm in the camp that says the days of mandated NPIs are over. Vaccines (and newer antiviral treatments) are the answer. Those especially vulnerable will have to take more precautions. There is just no way around that.

          9 replies 1 retweet 57 likes
        3. Aaron Astor‏ @AstorAaron 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @AstorAaron @zeynep and

          Hopefully, antiviral treatments will help immunocompromised people for whom vaccines do not help. This study from 2015 on a different virus shows antiviral treatments generally do work for immunocompromised patients.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25273082/ 

          2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
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        1. Feynman‏ @Feynman_19 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @TheEliKlein and

          Nobody here is arguing against vaccines or boosters! But I see absolutely no reason to keep delaying. Now we’re approaching the point where it becomes “okay, we delayed for two years and need to delay a bit more so that we can keep delaying.” Resources not restrictions.

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        1. Amygator  🐊 *not an actual alligator‏ @AmyA1A 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @TheEliKlein and

          Your argument against these science-denying unvaccinated vaccine-refusers in your head is quite compelling, but maybe now that that’s out of your system, could you address the actual concerns of people like @TheEliKlein and @TheNickFoy here?

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        2. Lori Fontanes‏ @LoriFontanes 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          I’m college prof boosted & ready 2 take as many shots as needed but many folks I know resist. It’s not just political (some), disinformation (yep) but I believe they’ve reached their emotional limits. Suspect there’ll be others in yr 3 of #COVID like them. Must consider this, too

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        3. BOUTROS ⽊‏ @boutros555 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @LoriFontanes @zeynep

          Yes, Zeynep & the “intelligentsia” may not realize this, but they’re dealing with human beings, not NPCs in a video game.

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        1. Clifton Duncan.‏ @cliftonaduncan 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @TheEliKlein and

          This entire exchange demonstrates why you cannot meet logic with illogic.

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