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There's so much to unpack here, so I'm going to have a bit of a crack at it in a twitter thread.

I think the endless debate about masks is a symptom of a whole heap of COVID-induced but also more secular trends all coming together in a giant pandemic-flavoured mess.
First up, pandemics are scary. There's lots of things from the Sandman model of risk communication that tilts them towards being high outrage.
- limited personal agency
- unseeable
- perceived as being imposed from outside
- "unnatural" (I dispute this)
- novel
This means that people are already wound up pretty tightly, and we know that this makes it even more difficult for people to process complex information properly.
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1/. Some people on Twitter & in the media yesterday here and in the USA saying that Governments should be taking “draconian” measures because it is only a few cases and it is just bad flu.
It isn’t flu at all.

Italy

On 2/2/20 : 2 cases. No deaths
7/7/20: 3 cases 3 deaths
2/. It stayed that way until the 19th February when slowly at first but then gradually the numbers started to climb with a lot of people hospitalised.

That was just 2.5 weeks ago.
We are just 5 days into March.

At 10 am 1st March (WHO data). Italy had 1129 cases and 29 deaths (and a lot of very sick people in hospital). This despite closing down towns, many public spaces

In 11 days

Cases had increased 376 fold
Deaths had increased 10 fold
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