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In Plovdiv, prosecutors launch inquiry into hospital cardiology department head, night shift attendant for "creating panic," spreading fake news. They wrote an open letter saying the hospital doesn't have enough PPE for coronavirus patients. segabg.com/node/125890
Days ago GERB (right-wing populist) MPs proposed 5-year prison sentences for purveyors of "fake news about infectious disease." #plovdiv #bulgaria @EU_Commission, EU has never been great about this sort of thing--
so I don't hold out much hope. But something very dark is happening in Central and Eastern Europe. Have you noticed?
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Of course we should all be wearing masks. Nonetheless, there aren't enough. So give your masks to the people who need them most: health care workers. The advice doesn't actually change--but it would have been better to be honest with the public about this from the start. I think.
Unless we actually have evidence that people will keep the masks even when they learn we haven't enough to go around, in which case, the public health imperative is to lie--but it's hard to weigh the long-term cost of diminished public trust.
That said, the public is already used to hearing lies and already doesn't trust what officials say, so there's not much trust to squander. Probably "lying" was the public health imperative--

And unless you think lying is *inherently wrong* (I do), they made the right choice.
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This is super-interesting and thank you for doing it. I wonder if the basic assumption--"the longer you spend with an infected person, the greater the chance of getting infected yourself," is correct. I can imagine all sorts of ways that premise could be wobbly.
e.g, common sense says you'd be better off spending 24 hours in the company of someone who's highly conscientious about handwashing, not touching his face, keeping 2 meters away from you than 12 hours in the company of a normal pre-pandemic person, right?
But ceteris paribus, it seems a reasonable assumption--it's just that we haven't yet confirmed this in any kind of controlled experiment, as far as I know. (Have we?)
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COVID-19 'Infodemic': Researchers Step Up to Stop the Spread medscape.com/viewarticle/92… So, this researcher has received a large grant to study this epidemic of misinformation--which, I agree, is a grave problem--
and figure out how to get rid of it. But I can't imagine any strategy to get rid of misinformation that doesn't strongly risk getting rid of good information. Usually, I'd say, "Solution obvious: Free speech. Let the good information rise to the top via open debate.'
But we're the targets of a serious, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns the object of which is to confuse the public--and they work. I see, in real time, how dangerous misinformation spreads, and know that it's getting people killed, in real time.
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