Friends, there is a mob of "COVID is not serious" (even hoax) politicized attack dogs w/no notion of science nor interest in it who tag to the very few play-the-system risk-clueless academics like @BallouxFrancois carrying THE msg that fits them.
Any other compromised academic? https://twitter.com/joe_shipman/status/1296938199038734336

2/MYTHS BY CRANKS

a- "Masks are not effective" (using "sounds scientific" biology argument)
b- Measures carry economic costs: no, it's the VIRUS that's costly [See debate w/Ioannidis].
c- "Death numbers are low" w/o realizing it is BECAUSE of measures. https://medium.com/incerto/the-masks-masquerade-7de897b517b7

3/ FALSE DICHOTOMIES: Economy vs virus. Most bus failures come from risk aversion. Nonlinearity: hosp capacity gets overhelmed.

We are progressively learning abt the disease: BUY TIME, w/treatments improving, perhaps vaccine. Most effective: masks+superspreaders for now

4/ Please be careful about the "Sweden argument". https://twitter.com/fapsid/status/1297552284168134657?s=20