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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 24 Dec 2021

      No, no, buddy. Where are the people? The babies? The patients, staff dispensing healing, hope, smile, the "Don't Stop Believing" chord progression? (G–D–Em–C). The stuff that moves people? I have, umm, some machete wounds, he volunteered. (Pics he took to improve treatment).

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Dec 2021

      Well, obviously, that wasn't going to work. Craig was got Ebola in 2014, returning from treating patients in Guinea—and almost died. The whole country was freaking out. I didn't know him, but I did write an article asking people to stop worrying about him. (Sorry, buddy!).

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Dec 2021

      I didn't mean don't not worry about him at all, but that the episode was showing how we kept worrying about the wrong thing—the infrastructure needed to combat pandemics, not one person who happened to get to New York. Here's my 2014 article about it all. https://medium.com/message/ebola-the-real-reason-everyone-should-panic-889f32740e3e …pic.twitter.com/J0pzahcUfd

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Dec 2021

      My article is straightforward now. Lesson one, globalization means pandemics can spread quickly. Lesson two, some hotspots for pandemic emergence may be in poor places, but we're connected. Lesson three, exponential growth is powerful, needs early countering. *yawns in 2021*pic.twitter.com/fpDKjtGm0o

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Dec 2021

      The article even talks about not letting variants emerge by letting a pandemic-potential virus explore the fitness landscape, not because this was some super secret expert hush thing, but as it says there, this was all the basics of basics of epidemiology.pic.twitter.com/4M2eR6JZhV

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Dec 2021

      Anyway, that year, I started donating what I could do Doctors Without Borders and Partners in Health—I had just gotten my first tenure-track job—because it felt ludicrous that Liberia was lacking gloves and plastic buckets while battling an Ebola outbreak. Two good orgs.pic.twitter.com/bfcFhNTq9n

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Dec 2021

      Let me say it clearly, I DO NOT LIKE THIS. I want to pay my taxes and I want there to be properly funded global organizations that deliver health-care as a human right, but also help keep all of us safe because, hello, the virus isn't checking your passport or color of your skin.

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Dec 2021

      *cries in 2020-2021*

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Dec 2021

      Anyway, after much effort, I got one proper fundraising photo out of @Craig_A_Spencer. It's a cute little newborn and an emotional mom, on a refugee boat in the Med. Perfect. Not taken by him, of course. If he's taking any pictures, they're probably of the sterilizing equipment.pic.twitter.com/vTAd7E0qW0

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    10. Karen in SF‏ @kerobinso_sf 24 Dec 2021
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      honestly this feels too personal to look at, like I’m intruding… I KNOW this is exactly the kind of photo you need…

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Dec 2021
      Replying to @kerobinso_sf @Craig_A_Spencer

      Yeah, exactly.

      8:30 PM - 24 Dec 2021
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