Naomi WuDec 5, 2022

Aaand the COVID minimizing to "avoid a panic" has begun🤦🏻‍♀️ I wonder how that will turn out- it's a mystery

RT @[email protected]

#SZDOpinion The release of critical #COVID-related data is very important for local officials to draw up appropriate #pandemic control and mitigation measures, and for the public to adopt a rational attitude towards #Omicron. #misinformation #transparency

http://szdaily.sznews.com/MB/content/202212/05/content_3001247.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/szdaily1/status/1599592853583572992

Fight COVID misinformation _Shenzhen Daily

Show threadNaomi WuDec 5, 2022

"It's like the flu"✅
It's not. Omicron is up to 40% deadlier than seasonal flu- even without factoring in the likelihood of subsequent opportunistic infections.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/coronavirus/omicron-is-40-deadlier-than-seasonal-flu-japanese-study-finds

https://fortune.com/well/2022/09/27/why-covid-isnt-like-the-flu-death-toll-leading-cause-death-omicron-shot-booster-vaccine/

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/covid-pandemic-end-worse-than-flu/671514/

Omicron Much Deadlier Than Flu Shows Risks of Easing Too Soon

The omicron strain of Covid-19 is at least 40% more lethal than seasonal flu, according Japanese scientists, underscoring the potential danger of lifting pandemic curbs too quickly and underestimating the virus’s ongoing health risks.

Show threadNaomi WuDec 5, 2022

"Omicron is mild"✅
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220127/deaths-due-to-omicron-higher-than-from-delta

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1601788/v1_covered.pdf?c=1651763984

Omicron variants killed more people than Delta in many places. While Omicron is less deadly *if you get infected*, the infection rate is far higher- so often the total mortality rate is higher.

Deaths Due to Omicron Higher Than From Delta

This week the nation recorded a seven-day average of 2,200 daily coronavirus-related deaths.

WebMD
Show threadNaomi WuDec 5, 2022

"Long-COVID isn't a thing"✅
It is.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/11/similar-long-covid-symptoms-noted-after-omicron-delta

https://www.axios.com/2022/10/06/long-covid-cdc-data-disabling

https://english.news.cn/20221109/bdada3bfdaaf4a25af37d25e0cb02ee0/c.html

Similar long-COVID symptoms noted after Omicron, Delta

Omicron appears to pose a similar risk of long-COVID symptoms as the Delta variant does.

CIDRAP
Show threadNaomi WuDec 5, 2022
"We have to lie, to avoid a panic"✅
This one probably killed more people than anything else because once you've lied and lost the public trust you can never get it back.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/16/trump-woodward-elite-panic-coronavirus-pandemic/
The Only People Panicking Are the People in Charge

The public can handle disasters better than lying leaders can.

Foreign Policy
Show threadNaomi WuDec 5, 2022
The only thing that probably killed almost as many people is the four cognitive fallacies of the apocalypse:
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1528886188781674496
Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 on Twitter

“In case you are curious why we're doomed to repeat this, I give you the four cognitive fallacies of the apocalypse: Normalcy Bias https://t.co/QYPtrZco45 Abnormalcy Bias https://t.co/6SKFdQ1imi Distance Bias: https://t.co/ZQQixx2nQo Risk Compensation https://t.co/JkMqxwZQtk”

Twitter
Show threadNaomi WuDec 5, 2022
What should be done- but is not, is Chinese language education that reflects the latest science about how COVID is transmitted. Instead, we get "wash your hands" and "wear a medical mask"- interventions we know to be ineffective against Omicron.
Show threadcarto
@SexyCyborg Well at least you get the wear a mask -bit, that's completely optional in the Nordics. As in almost nobody bothers, and people get sick in droves.
Dec 5, 2022 at 7:40amWeb