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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 Jan 2

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Mark D. Levine

      NYC at ~50,000 known cases per day. I’d guess as many from untracked rapid tests—and who knows how many untested. ~25% test positivity. Yes hospitalization rate is very low but a small % of a huge number is big. Decision is what gets disrupted in an orderly vs. disorderly manner.https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1477802021218656261 …

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      Mark D. LevineVerified account @MarkLevineNYC
      Hospitalizations in NYC are rising faster than at any point since March, 2020. With a healthcare workforce which is now exhausted and depleted. We can't just accept this. We have to do more to slow this wave. pic.twitter.com/LuMFgSDJMj
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep Jan 2

      There is a point at which exponential math takes over policy preferences. I don’t understand how this isn’t obvious two years into this pandemic.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep Jan 2

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Michael Carmine

      I get the importance of this question but it’s not just that. Hospitals just cannot keep up with staffing. Plus, there’s enough hospitalized “from”—almost all from the vaccinated to add. And hospital workers have family members sick, and their subway out and childcare collapsing.https://twitter.com/Michael_Carmine/status/1477830979750400001 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Michael Carmine @Michael_Carmine
      Replying to @zeynep
      Hospitalized WITH or FROM ? Why can't we get that data clearly?
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep Jan 2

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Matt R

      One’s personal views on one’s personal risk are largely irrelevant to a crisis of infrastructure, though. Yes by all means people should get vaccinated, get boosters, and vaccinate children.https://twitter.com/TReasonabilist/status/1477832969838542851 …

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      Matt R @TReasonabilist
      Replying to @justinhendrix @zeynep
      Everyone in your family will eventually get covid. It will ikely be with us our entire lived. Get vaccinated and hope for the best, but you can't live in fear forever.
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep Jan 2

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted John O'Neil

      Yeah. I totally don’t understand is “living in fear” talking point. Infrastructure stress and failure is not about personal risk tolerance.https://twitter.com/THAToneil/status/1477835797361577988 …

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      John O'NeilVerified account @THAToneil
      Replying to @zeynep
      I don't know anybody in NYC who's "living in fear" the way we really did in March 2020. I do know plenty of people who don't want to get it or spread it in the midst of an exponential surge and who are willing to take some simple precautions to lower the risk.
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep Jan 2

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted

      Say what? I went to see plays in NYC parks. In fact Merry Wives by Public Theater was so good that I went twice. This caricature some people have of many people living in fear is that often the opposite of truth. I’m aware, though, how stretched-thin hospitals are. https://twitter.com/ahresnick/status/1477840566268223492 …

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep Jan 2

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Boulis

      Yeah. That’s my conclusion as well.https://twitter.com/plike_/status/1477842075706183681 …

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      Boulis @plike_
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      The “living in fear” talking point usually comes from those who spend too much time online consuming straw-man portrayals of the “side” they disagree with
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        1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep Jan 3

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS

          Here’s a good thread with specifics. There’s a world beyond “it’s not March 2020”, “is it with or from?” and “stop living in fear.” You have a wave like this, it produces a lot of outcomes that need active management.https://twitter.com/kit_delgadoMD/status/1477849661109059589 …

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          M. Kit Delgado, MD, MSVerified account @kit_delgadoMD
          ...Dialysis patients report difficulty getting outpatient dialysis because they tested positive. Many psych crisis centers, detox units, homeless shelters, and some nursing facilities won’t accept Covid+ patients. This leads to extra time in the hospital to meet these needs...
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        2. Dustin Moskovitz‏Verified account @moskov Jan 2
          Replying to @zeynep

          I feel like that applies to sooo much, with covid and everything else. All these POV caricatures, few characters embodying them.

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        3. deniz‏ @denizaydemir Jan 2
          Replying to @moskov @zeynep

          Additionally, if you look hard enough it seems like you can always find a person to confirm your straw man and rationalize a misrepresentative argument.

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        2. John Tuesday‏ @Frugal_Saver Jan 2
          Replying to @zeynep

          The "living in fear" talking point is the byproduct of careless narrative sculptors who previously promoted the "casedemic" & promoted "living with COVID". Irresponsible intelligentsia were blind to the havoc a new variant can unleash when the pivot space has been constrained.

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        3. John Tuesday‏ @Frugal_Saver Jan 2
          Replying to @Frugal_Saver @zeynep

          Narrative sculptors have got to stop taking orders indirectly from commercial real estate interests. In the end, you aren't doing the owners of office towers any favors. Even if your editors give you an approving nod in the short term. In the longer term: Here we are again.

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        1. Wyatt Derp  🖐️  🖐️‏ @WyattDerpy Jan 2
          Replying to @zeynep

          Yup. The only thing I live in fear of is people like them.

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        1. Jeff Engel‏ @leshrac55 Jan 2
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          I’ve had several people ask me if Chicago is just a “ghost town” right now, as if everyone had just completely shut themselves inside and haven’t come out in two years. Do people really not understand that we don’t have to live in one extreme or the other?

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        1. MosheArditiMD‏ @ArditiMd Jan 3
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          I totally agree. Best is to take time off from online media and tv to ignore the unproductive “ living in fear “ only attitude.

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        1. JP Millsap‏ @JpMillsap Jan 3
          Replying to @zeynep

          Millions of people just never got impacted much and don’t watch CNN to hear otherwise. I’m sure there is some statistical bias in both sides. Anecdotes versus cherry picking, winners curse…

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