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2 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This is right and important. At this stage we need to leave a spectrum of precaution to individual choice and personal health risk. But to do that we need to have clear info abt how people can protect themselves. What works and what doesn't according to the latest knowledge.
2/ We're not going to be mandating high filtration masks, for better or worse. But we shld give people the information that cloth masks provide meager protection and if you want to protect yourself you should be wearing a high filtration mask.
3/ I'm reasonably bright and have been covering this for two years and I have had a hard time making sense of which masks work and how well. So I put together this primer on which masks work best, how to choose one and how to know if it's working. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/covid-n…
4/ There's also this guidance for people who don't want to vax or mask.

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Hard to say anything abt masks w/o getting attacked from all directions. That's fine. Many of us have strong feelings and we've all been through enough to be entitled to them. But this is the thing abt high filtration masks. To a significant extent they allow people to go solo.
2/ In the early days of the pandemic civilians only had inferior masks. So it was critical that everyone be wearing them since you needed to dampen aerosols on the exhale and the inhale. Ideally that's still the case. But the reality is that we're in a world where ...
3/ lots of people aren't masking or are wearing inferior masks or aren't wearing them right. High filtration masks allow you to take your safety largely into your own hands. It's certainly not 100% protection. But you have it within your power to get a mask that provides ...
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29 Dec 21
Been working on a post abt what we've learned abt what does and doesn't work w with the CDC as a pandemic response org. But these points are critical too. The key shortcoming of epi/pub health Twitter is not grappling w the difference between what you'd want to do ...
2/ in the abstract and what you can do within the political and societal realities you have to operate in. They're really, really different. This can sound defensive. And it is in some ways the role of outside critics and experts to highlight the delta between what ...
3/ being done and how it could be done better. So it's not all one way or another. My own take is that COVID has illustrated ways in which the CDC is designed for normal times and struggles in this context, not because the people are idiots but because of structure and design.
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28 Dec 21
This excellent piece focuses on the 'reimagining and expansion' of Obamacare and its every-growing popularity. What is important to remember though is that no big program is a one and done affair. They always getting expanded or at least optimized ... nytimes.com/2021/12/22/ups…
2/ based on how they function in real life. This isn't a shortcoming of the original program any more that the first version of the iPhone or a Model-T was a failure of engineering. But since passage in 2010 Republicans adopted a plan a willful sabotage even after ...
3/ it became clear the law would never be repealed. Not expanding Obamacare is at least reasonably in line with Republican policy goals of allowing as few people to get coverage as possible. But it went well beyond that. With every other program through history ...
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24 Dec 21
One of the most reassuring things I’ve seen about humanity of late is an internal Amazon study that says they’re struggling to get people to use their Alexas. Not that people aren’t using them. A truly insane number of American households have at least one Alexa.
2/ But most people simply don’t want to use them for all the things Amazon wants people to use them for. For it to be a growing business it needs to keep getting more enmeshed in your daily activities. But Amazon has internal studies showing that the overwhelming …
3/ number of Alexa users never use it for any service they didn’t use in like the first three hours after they installed it. We have alexas in our home and like it’s freakin amazing for turning the lights on and off. Occasionally I’ll set a timer. maybe once a week I’ll …
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23 Dec 21
One of the most perplexing and baffling aspects of the pandemic is the half-life of clearly outmoded rules. I just got an email from younger son's school that said that among other useful precautions post-break the school will be "deep cleaned over break."
2/ Clearly this is a complete waste of time. People aren't getting COVID that was sitting on a doorknob for 10 days. Some of this is just the interaction of inertia, bureaucracy and emerging science. Some is just an effort to appear to be doing something.
3/ Obviously a "deep cleaning" won't hurt anything. I mean, it's nice to be clean. But other issues are more pressing. There seems to be an emerging consensus that 10 day isolation is significantly longer than it needs to be, especially for the vaccinated.
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23 Dec 21
Definitely take a moment to read this @TPM_dk review of the recent JustSecurity to look at Pentagon actions on Jan 6th and our own coverage. The idea that Pentagon leaders were holding back to avoid Trump using troops for his coup ... talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/crisis-… via @TPM
2/ rather than out of some sympathy for the insurrectionists has always seemed quite plausible to me. It's not all white hats. There clearly were also people trying to keep getting blamed, working the optics. But one of the reasons this has always seemed broadly plausible ...
3/ to me is that it actually matches what many of us were thinking at the time. If we go back to late December and early January the big fear was that Trump was going to mobilize the military to stay in power. All the subsequent info we've learned only confirms that that ...
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