Virologists on my timeline reacting to the CDC’s masking recommendations right now: A 🧵
The repetitive ones
The religious ones
The “I won’t be following THAT advice” ones
The sweary ones
More sweary ones (cause this is science Twitter)
The Midwestern ones
The “I’m right, the CDC is wrong” ones
The “YOUNGER KIDS CAN’T EVEN GET VACCINATED YET!” ones
The quiet ones
The sassy ones
The “I’m just checking Twitter for the first time today” ones
The “I want to speak against it, but nicely” ones
The “I’m judging you like a hard-to-read thesis committee member” ones
The overly verbose ones
And finally, the collective ones

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How to talk about COVID vaccines, a thread:

After perusing social media and talking with my non-scientist friends, the biggest concern I keep hearing about COVID vaccines is that the speed at which they’re being developed makes people question the vaccines’ safety. 1/
There will ALWAYS be people who are anti-vaxx, no matter what. No amount of evidence, personal conversation, empathy etc. will change their minds. I can usually spot these people quite fast and have learned not to engage further. It’s futile and draining. 2/
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In my biomedical sciences program, I had to rotate through 4 separate labs (it’s a lot, I know). 1/n

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