Doctors are tweeting about coronavirus to make facts go viral

How about tweeting these,<p>1. The virus mostly spreads through BREATHING&#x2F;TALKING&#x2F;COUGHING.<p>2. 80% of infections come from FRIENDS&#x2F;FAMILY. Stop going to meet them unnecessarily and spending hours together indoors.<p>3. Masks mostly don&#x27;t help you, they help the people AROUND you.<p>I&#x27;d say the average person would be much better prepared against the virus with these three facts.

How sad... I just realized my initial gut reaction to seeing any news headline with the word &quot;Fact&quot; in it has become to assume it has a political angle.<p>More often than not, &quot;Fact&quot; is just a synonym for some political opinion.<p>How far have we fallen? Our news outlets are more often than not just Panic Porn and Political Hit Jobs... anything except actual unvarnished, unspun, unpoliticized raw news.

Med twitter is a big thing. It&#x27;s mostly doctors talking to doctors. It&#x27;s almost replacing conferences and journals, and the primary way info about sars-cov-2 has been spread, and excellent for critical review of all the preprints that have also gained &quot;virality.&quot; Would be nice if it weren&#x27;t on twitter though. An old style forum would be much better, or even something like reddit, though I suspect one day these people posting &quot;tweetorials&quot; will regret putting all this info onto someone else&#x27;s platform rather than blog posts etc.

It can&#x27;t be done, because that&#x27;s not how viral memes work.<p>Facts are boring and require nuance. Things go viral because they&#x27;re outrageous, surprising, or (my favorite) wrong enough that people make responses, which in turn are wrong enough...et voila: Viral.

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Doctors try to make facts publicly available. The Wall Street Journal puts them behind a paywall.

Facts by themselves aren’t political or have an agenda.<p>The decision to present certain facts, the other facts you compare those to, and the manner in which they are presented, however, invokes agendas and politics.<p>No matter how much people claim otherwise, doctors presenting facts have agendas. This includes Dr Fauci.