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A lecture on school reopening and #covid19
2/ If you want to open schools, control the epidemic. Period. Sharing a thread from earlier today ⬇️⬇️⬇️

3/ I’m going to leave this here. And this is not about Barron, and this is absolutely about Maryland having increasing transmission, and this is definitely about President Trump tweeting this morning saying to “open schools”

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4/ We have to realize how dangerous every attempt is to make things feel “normal” when they are not. This is a means, whether intentional or not, by which to distract us from controlling the epidemic. ⬇️⬇️
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1/ Friends have recently told me they were happy the @NBA is back because it made things feel “normal”.

I told them I don’t want things to feel normal, because they aren’t.

Remember that when the privileged are allowed to feel comfortable, *nothing* will change.
2/ I want us all to feel uncomfortable.

Discomfort is necessary for change.

If you look around, especially at those who are wealthy, privileged, eager to opine on the hypothetical bc they aren’t actually on the frontlines— look closer and you’ll see complacency.
3/ If you see your parents die or your kids gets sick, you’ll be screaming in the streets, not posting about what your room is rated during your tv interview.

People are suffering — esp already vulnerable people. And I fear that elites are largely removed from that reality.
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1/ We are 1 of the only wealthy places in the world that actually tried, failed, & gave up

We tried to mitigate, this epidemic ran away, we tried to lockdown, only did it 1/2 way, reopened early, acted surprised, tried to rationalize new cases as “not so bad”- here we are
1.5/ Some may argue we didn’t fail or didn’t give up. But what we did was allow the epidemic to wipe through states— Northeast first, Texas/CA/Florida/Arizona next, & now a whole new set of states on the way to taking their places (see later tweets ⬇️). This virus outpaced us.
2/ We need to start changing our entire mentality

Every new case should illicit outrage— yesterday, that was 58,194 cases

Every attempt by the government to convince us otherwise should be seen as a threat to our lives and a testament to their incompetence, because it is both.
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1/ Blanket guidance like “wear a mask” is largely unhelpful IF it is not followed up w/ key messaging around *when* & *where* masks are most important AND when cloth/surgical masks may not be good enough (hint- we have other tools at our disposal)

Some thoughts:
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2/ Remember— indoor spread is so much more common/likely than outdoors.

Yet there are people who seem to religiously mask outside and then take the mask off when it is most critical, such as indoors when they get to work or in the breakroom w/ colleagues etc
3/ If you mask outside but don’t inside, you are doing things almost completely backwards.

My guess is that realistically, people are *not* going to wear a mask 100% of the day.

So the 25-50-75% that you actually do *must* happen when most likely that you could get infected
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