Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

New quantitative support for the basic argument I made in this piece from March — democracies are not less effective than authoritarian states at combating COVID-19 https://t.co/htCFW1cYet — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Perils of working from home: I reached into the fridge to get a Diet Coke, didn't look too closely because I was thinking about work, and accidentally took a sip from a can of hard cider — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@libbyanelson Incredible. 62 percent competent, I’d say? — PolitiTweet.org

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Yeah this mostly checks out https://t.co/GgyyCrEl7f https://t.co/kxdH7ejduR — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin What is this from? — PolitiTweet.org

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On the plus side I know have enough knock off passover food - Ringee-Os instead of Cheerios, for example - to feed a small army — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Love for my one trip out of the house to be an expensive pre-Passover trip to the Kosher supermarket that ends in a glass container of beet horseradish breaking in the car ride and dripping red across my living room and kitchen — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I spoke with epidemiologist and AIDS activist @gregggonsalves on how to think about coronavirus — and the disturbing parallels between now and the early days of the AIDS epidemic https://t.co/V0FcmTil6s — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: I made one of those collages about how the media totally botched the pandemic risk story. https://t.co/1EXYI9l5Mh — PolitiTweet.org

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@nkulw the fury that tweet inspired made me feel better about having written it, tbh — PolitiTweet.org

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I got an advance look at some extremely striking polling on Fox News’s role in our current crisis https://t.co/9Qcu0BAkwQ — PolitiTweet.org

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7. And here’s Ferguson himself explaining what he meant. Don’t hold your breath for any corrections from pro-Trump media though https://t.co/h3rf9Geop9 — PolitiTweet.org

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I want to be clear: There is a part of this that's very explicable, which is that mainstream outlets are going to be very, very thorough in reporting before writing up something this explosive. I know for a fact some are looking into the allegations. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattBruenig this has been tripping me up for days — PolitiTweet.org

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6. Sourcing here is the New Scientist piece on Ferguson's parliamentary testimony, which you can read here: https://t.co/IEfNbkPOvg And the original Imperial College model, which you can read here: https://t.co/sRcS7SIdTi — PolitiTweet.org

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5. Places like The Federalist are using this to make it seem like it's totally OK to open up society — don't believe the experts, their alarmist models are lying to you, Trump is right. Except it actually proves the opposite: When you listen to the experts, thousands are saved. — PolitiTweet.org

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4. The reason for Ferguson's new estimate is that Britain has moved toward a much, much more restrictive policy than it had in place earlier — alongside beefing up of NHS capacity. — PolitiTweet.org

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3. Except the original model predicted that a total as low as 20,000 was possible in the UK — if Britain changed course toward a more aggressive policy. Don't take my word from it; here's the table of projected deaths from the report. You can see huge variation based on response https://t.co/IylncLHmkR — PolitiTweet.org

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2. The argument rests on the idea that Ferguson's Imperial team predicted that Britain could have as many as 500,000 deaths, but recently said that deaths there likely wouldn't exceed 20,000. — PolitiTweet.org

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1. This right wing media meme that Neil Ferguson "walked back" the Imperial College report's findings in Britain are utterly and completely false — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't understand why the extremely serious sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden are not getting significant attention outside of left media — PolitiTweet.org

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Oh look, it's brilliant Hopkins ethics of infectious disease policy scholar @fadenethx (who so happens to also be my mother) on the @ezraklein show! https://t.co/VnEH4dkfQv — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

There’s a widespread belief that China’s coronavirus response, as compared to Europe and America’s, proves democracies can’t handle the crisis. This is false — and actually quite dangerous. https://t.co/27ScwCgr4i — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/OcfBigtUp2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Genuinely cannot understand why Benny Gantz thinks what he's doing is a good idea — PolitiTweet.org

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The Dunning-Kruger is so strong in that particular industry, it's remarkable — PolitiTweet.org

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At this point, whenever I see a tech person tweeting a take on coronavirus, I instinctively assume the opposite of what they're saying is true — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Vinncent: How are you doing? Me I am in Brazil, where coronavirus has arrived and state governors are now in open rebellion against a w… — PolitiTweet.org

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Imagine looking at the coronavirus response and thinking that we're in grave danger of an authoritarian power grab… https://t.co/7kBYtxCzdY — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbouie @JamesFallows @jayrosen_nyu @KUOW me too — PolitiTweet.org