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@dontwantadothis
Aug 21 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Great piece on @pbsnewshour right now, inc. interview w/ @EricTopol, who notes 1M US cases a day. He notes three reasons: + transmissible variant; waning immunity, & "abandoned mitigation." Mask wearing explicitly recommended, in the piece. Nasal vax discussed, too.

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Reporter explicitly asked if it's a "problem" that so many folks see covid as a cold, & Topol responded w/ one reason that's a big problem.

TY to the reporter for asking the right questions so Topol could answer them.

It's the last story, here:



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Bonus tweet: I know this short interview didn't say *everything* it could have. (For ex., there was no mention of the fact that hospitals aren't required to report cases, as a reason hospitalization #s are lower than we might expect.) But many important messages were conveyed.

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Aug 13
Ruh-roh.

"Return-to-office policies are getting stricter, upending the lives of those who had gotten used to working from home."

In Philadelphia, the mayor has ordered "all municipal employees back to the office five days a week."

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But "officials acknowledged the return-to-office decision wasn't driven by concerns about productivity. Rather, it was in pursuit of what they called a leadership philosophy."

Um, really? I'll bet it wasn't that either. Much more likely, forced returns are motivated by...
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"A survey last year by the professional services firm KPMG found two-thirds of CEOs predicting a full return to office by 2026."
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Aug 11
🧵 I know some folks want to believe that disregard for the safety of athletes (& others) in Paris is something new & specific to covid, but it's really not. In the US, at least, "pushing through the pain" has been considered a virtue for generations, probably for the same

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reasons it is now (which are often economic). The article below describes t-shirts from the 1990s that boasted slogans like "pain is weakness leaving the body." Not new.

Are there really folks among us who haven't been told to suck it up when our bodies
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give us warnings we should heed? I have been, throughout my life, & I'm *naturally* "type A," which used to be called "coronary prone personality" or "workaholic" - the truth of which was not lost on me when I had a heart attack while writing an essay in 2022...yet I just kept on
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Aug 10
Good op-ed by the Div. of Medical Ethics chair at NYU's Grossman School of Med. But the one thing he neglects to mention is that the lack of appropriate policy & shunting of responsibility onto uninformed individuals mirrors that of governments &...

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institutions throughout the pandemic. These Olympics have been the world in microcosm.

He says: "I can’t believe that...doctors, the [IOC], or any national Olympic organization would invoke the rationale that athletes get to decide whether to compete."

Really? Look around you.
(And note that NYU's healthcare system has done the same; pot/kettle.)

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Aug 10
Psych 🧵

This is an interesting (and awful) take, so I'm sharing it as a gift article.

The author writes about her own selfish thoughts; identifies with Noah Lyles; & reveals some wonky thinking that has brought us to this place.

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First, she informs us that she'd done all the right things, until 2023. (She's a Good Person.) But rather than seeing those mitigations as a lifestyle change, she treated them like a diet that gives you a free pass to eat a whole cheesecake after a week of being "virtuous."

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Aug 5
🧵 Psych thoughts re: the Seine:

This was obviously a policy failure that we watched unfold in real time. ("Wait! Stop! Come back!" says Willie Wonka.) But it also demonstrates how people selectively trust authority figures when those leaders are...

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saying what we want to hear. (This pattern of behavior has also been on clear display during the pandemic: people were suspicious of leaders whom they perceived as restricting freedoms, due to psychological reactance, but once those experts said to unmask & go to the mall,

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the same folks who had been disbelieving suddenly found faith in authorities' messenges again. Ask people why they aren’t masking, & many will give you some variation on "the CDC said I don't need to.")

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🧵 Just because something is published doesn't mean it's good science. Below, I'll talk more about how you can evaluate research articles you may come across on social media or that might be cited in the press.

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1st, when reading a media article that cites/links to a research pub., look at what the research piece itself says. Journalists may get things wrong or present a biased/incomplete picture. They may imply there's a causal relationship b/t variables when that's not the case.

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Second, evaluate the content of the journal article. Is a hypothesis clearly stated? Do the study authors test it in a way that makes sense? What are their conclusions? (You will find those in the paper's "discussion" and "conclusions" sections.)

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