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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. Michael Mina‏Verified account @michaelmina_lab 14 Dec 2021

      I’m going back and forth about this @TheAtlantic piece It is SO difficult to read As @jabarocas wrote - it insults & dismisses so many sacrifices made But it also represents a hard truth of how millions of Americans view & have dealt w COVID 1/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/where-i-live-no-one-cares-about-covid/620958/ …

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    2. Michael Mina‏Verified account @michaelmina_lab 14 Dec 2021

      Should @TheAtlantic have published it? It conveys what I consider deadly beliefs. But it’s so representative of the thinking of very many citizens that I also think it’s good for many people to read - to gain understanding of how people are thinking - regardless of the data 2/

      36 replies 11 retweets 281 likes
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    3. Michael Mina‏Verified account @michaelmina_lab 14 Dec 2021

      So I’m really on the fence. Perhaps it should be published w a warning on top. But that is a very slippery slope of censorship and Reenforcing divisions and information bubbles on both sides 3/

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 Dec 2021
      Replying to @michaelmina_lab

      I’m all for publishing a wide range of views. But I think that piece doesn’t represent much of anything. It certainly doesn’t represent most Americans—even those who oppose some measures. He’s performing “I represent real America”—as a professional act, and not doing it well.

      22 replies 19 retweets 345 likes
    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 Dec 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @michaelmina_lab

      Give me solid reporting into places where measures are opposed or ignored, where cases have surged and even points of views that are discouraging. Sure! This person is performing “aw, schucks you coastal elites” as part of his professional niche, in the most useless way possible.

      8 replies 4 retweets 207 likes
    6. Armchair epidemiologist (self-certified)‏ @yellingatwind 14 Dec 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @michaelmina_lab

      I've read the Atlantic "What Covid?" article twice. The first time I thought it was @michaelmina_lab interesting as alternative world viewpoint. The second time I found it to be an impeccably impressively disturbing piece of dis/misinformation.

      1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
    7. Michael Mina‏Verified account @michaelmina_lab 14 Dec 2021
      Replying to @yellingatwind @zeynep

      I just wrote this identical thing to @jabarocas - The more I read it the more disturbed I am by it That said - I think it’s important to be uncomfortable reading the real views of ppl. I don’t know how to balance the fact that those real views are based on misinformation though

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    8. Josh Barocas, MD‏ @jabarocas 14 Dec 2021
      Replying to @michaelmina_lab @yellingatwind @zeynep

      Josh Barocas, MD Retweeted Josh Barocas, MD

      For context @zeynep, this was my initial response & I’m still feeling it.https://twitter.com/jabarocas/status/1470581260489670660?s=20 …

      Josh Barocas, MD added,

      Josh Barocas, MD @jabarocas
      As an ID physician, frontline worker, & public health professional, I think I’ve generally held my sh*t together pretty well over the past two years (not lashing out, being civil) but this garbage @TheAtlantic article undid me (let me explain)-please read https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/where-i-live-no-one-cares-about-covid/620958/ …
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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 Dec 2021
      Replying to @jabarocas @michaelmina_lab @yellingatwind

      I feel your anger, Josh. But I'm talking about something else, specifically he isn't even representing the people "typical Americans" or "real Americans" as the frame goes. He's a professional writer who is an arch-conservative Catholic, mad at infant-formula. Also vaccinated.

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 Dec 2021
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      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      So it's not even a piece that furthers our understanding of the problem. I wrote more about that in this thread.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1470833332174966793 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Problem with that Atlantic piece many are mad about is not that the author represents views of Americans who oppose public health measures or are ignoring COVID—it's that it *does not*. It's a typical finely-tuned *professional* performance of "I'm real America". Uninformative. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1470820825586614273 …
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      • Armchair epidemiologist (self-certified) Foresight 🧐🧠❤️🔭, not Hopium 🙈🔮🙉 Josh Barocas, MD (((Jim Stein)))
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        2. Josh Barocas, MD‏ @jabarocas 14 Dec 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @michaelmina_lab @yellingatwind

          I agree and that's one of the things that triggered me. The author said "here's my truth...deal with it" without offering solutions, ways to improve, or an invitation for discourse.

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        3. (((Jim Stein)))‏ @JamesStein18 14 Dec 2021
          Replying to @jabarocas @zeynep and

          As @zeynep so perfectly described it, it’s a “make Twitter mad” homework assignment, done successfully. The problem is, it’s mean and demoralizing and dishonest. I guess that’s why it was so successful.

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