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10 Sep, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I’m totally fine and there is no need to worry or anything like that (honestly!!) but I will not be answering e-mails today Me sitting in a hospital bed in a hospital gown, wearing an
Anyway if I tweet weird later, it’s just the anesthesia 😅
Thanks everyone for the well wishes! Surgery and post-op went fine and I’m home now and resting, looked after by @cavaticat. Still not answering any e-nails today 🙅‍♀️ Me peeking my face out of a giant mass of white blankets in Me reclining on a sofa at home looking woozy but smiling, we
Or e-mails either 😅
Feeling much more coherent today but the side effect of something made my vision blurry and now I can’t read my phone. Which may be for the best.

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27 Aug
The seating chart makes it especially clear that defining a “close contact” as “within six feet for more than 15 minutes” is absurdly insufficient in the context of (1) an indoor space and (2) the Delta variant. Being close is worse but indoors the whole room is at risk.
The above kind of story is why I cringe every time I see a press conference or other event in which everyone is masked EXCEPT the speaker at the front. You create the most droplets and aerosols when you’re speaking — that’s when you need the mask MOST!
The official advice is “masks work best when everyone is wearing them.” They can be helpful protection for uninflected people to wear but they’re MOST helpful as source control: worn by infected people. With Delta, most transmissions happen BEFORE SYMPTOMS APPEAR. Please mask up.
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19 Aug
“74% of infections with Delta took place during the presymptomatic phase — a higher proportion than for previous variants”

Get vaccinated, get tested. You don’t know whether or not you’re contagious, and no one around you knows either.
Rapid testing can be a very useful tool to help reduce spread. Rapid tests like these (about $20 for two tests) aren’t perfect & can give false negatives BUT if used widely & often they can catch infections before symptoms show up. (Some govts subsidize them; the US should too.) Three boxes of the “BinaxNOW” brand Covid-19 antigen sel
<looks meaningfully in the direction of the US government>
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14 Aug
Thanks everyone for your questions! I have stopped answering now but check out the tweets below to see if any of your own questions have been asked by someone else and answered here! I'll quote tweet a few.
In response to "why are we here?"
On the "edge of space"
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10 Aug
TBH I would rather risk hurting someone’s feelings by changing my behavior in response to a choice they have made than risk inadvertently passing a potentially deadly virus on to anyone I might come in contact with
Isolation from your friends is terrible but an isolation ward in a hospital is worse
So anyway yes I will be rude to you if that rudeness might down the road save the life of a stranger; I wish you a speedy and painless recovery from the slight
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20 Jul
I'm quoted in this great NYT piece by @MaryRobinette: "Selection of space crew based on whim and money rather than based on selections by governmental agencies is a shift I’m still struggling with." nytimes.com/2021/07/19/sci…
Tomorrow, Wally Funk, one of the people most prepared for space flight of any human in history, will go briefly to space, for the first time, after a six-decade wait, alongside three vastly less qualified but extremely wealthy men.
I am told again and again by reliable and respected sources that this is a step toward the democratization of space flight and greater access to space for everyone and this may be true but it does make me wonder if it is really the only possible path from here to there.
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11 Jul
Watching the @virgingalactic launch this morning 🚀 #Unity22
My feelings about the whole billionaire space race thing are, shall we say, mixed. I’m watching the launch because I’m interested in spaceships but there’s a lot going on with this whole endeavor that a tweet can’t really encapsulate.
Wow this livestream is really putting the “commercial” into “commercial spaceflight”
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