Ten Years Ago

As it happened, a decade in the past

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

3 July 2020

Cass Sunstein: How to Nudge a Coronavirus Nonbeliever

"Why are so many people refusing to take precautions?"

https://t.co/u60gePNtwV

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

28 February 2020

Cass Sunstein: The Cognitive Bias That Makes Us Panic About Coronavirus

"No one can specify the magnitude of the threat from the coronavirus. But one thing is clear: A lot of people are more scared than they have any reason to be."

https://t.co/O5hp5EXfsS

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

25 June 2020

"I’m going to go out on a limb and predict there will be no “second spike” – not now, and not in the autumn either. The virus has melted into thin air. It’s time to get back to normal."

-Toby Young, The Telegraph

https://t.co/KRnmrbYMap

[Stian Westlake @stianwestlake]

"Of course the UK had a herd immunity strategy" - the unmissable @YearCovid turns back the clock and reviews the evidence

https://t.co/d1GjnYeNBJ

[Mark Egan @Makeuya]

Really enjoying the @YearCovid substack

Thorough reporting of what happened + some very perceptive commentary

https://t.co/uKkM85W4Es

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

New post: Why was it so easy to fool the media on herd immunity?

https://t.co/AZeQ090FmK

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

"The UK had official plan to manage the mass infection of the population until we reached herd immunity, outlined in official government documents and described in media appearances by our top scientists, who mostly went on to pretend it never happened"

https://t.co/wWEDpPn1sf

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

It’s bizarre that this needs saying, but *of course* the UK had a Herd Immunity plan

https://t.co/wWEDpPECjN

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

"once something becomes the “institutional opinion” it automatically gets endorsement from every other major institution similar to the way an AAA rating was rebroadcast through the financial system in 2008"

https://t.co/UbB60MDMvX

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

"once something becomes the “institutional opinion” it automatically gets endorsement from every other major institution similar to the way an AAA rating was rebroadcast through the financial system in 2008"

https://t.co/UbB60MDMvX

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

New post:

A timeline of the strange period last year when the most prominent anti-mask campaigners were public health officials

https://t.co/gC4ej5uIOk

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

New post: the "noble lie" on masks probably wasn't a lie

https://t.co/UbB60MDMvX

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

I'm sincerely glad that @YearCovid isn't allowing the Western failure on masks to simply be memory-holed. I think this series is going to be the magnum opus on why western medics and scientists, assisted by a pliant media, failed so badly. https://t.co/RsioZYJC3N

[Stuart Ritchie @StuartJRitchie]

Here it is: the definitive story of the bizarre, mainstream, institutional anti-facemask campaign of early 2020. Read it and weep: https://t.co/BxIyvDbJug (by the author of @YearCovid)

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

New post:

A timeline of the strange period last year when the most prominent anti-mask campaigners were public health officials

https://t.co/gC4ej5uIOk

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

"The scary lesson in all this is that for unusual risks like pandemics, where the real-life test of expert theories occurs very rarely, we should expect many expert consensus views to be completely back-to-front wrong"

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

"The experts can stay wrong longer than you can stay alive"

New on Substack: Lessons from the Crisis: https://t.co/sVAQyg8TRn

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

"The experts can stay wrong longer than you can stay alive"

New on Substack: Lessons from the Crisis: https://t.co/sVAQyg8TRn

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

Jan 2020

"The evidence on travel bans for diseases like coronavirus is clear: They don’t work"

https://t.co/wmKbuV2bZV

[Ten Years Ago @ten_years_on]

April 2021

Lawrence Gostin, Georgetown University global health law professor who helped write the international regulations:

“I have now realized that our belief about travel restrictions was just that — a belief. It was evidence-free.”

https://t.co/kvkteqX9jh