It's the first year anniversary of this thread—responding to the first papers coming out of Wuhan. Talks about need for millions of tests (due to mild clinical symptoms), the threat to the elderly & high-risk, the danger of mutations and importance global equity. We were warned. https://t.co/yWlAvJsGLo

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) January 29, 2021

Yes we were warned. Anyone without fucking blinders knew by the end of January we were in for bad times.

And still I see, “Who could have KNOWNNNNNNN?”

We knew. We had time to prepare. We just didn’t. Well, Vietnam and a few other places did. But those were the exceptions.

We are a bunch of fucking clowns.