What's Coming Out About SARS-CoV-2?

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With SARS-1, you weren't very infectious until you had symptoms. What's coming out about SARS-CoV-2 is that it can actually enter the body, start reproducing and become infectious before symptoms or even without any symptoms at all. And so they're less infectious because they're not necessarily projecting with coughs and sneezes, but they're still very, very infectious. The whole misnomer with the masks was that, oh, you don't need to wear it because you're not sick, because I can protect you.

Ben and James discuss masks and Twitter’s decision to delete tweets about COVID-19.

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Zeynep Tufekci: Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired — The New York Times
Ben Thompson: Unmasking Twitter — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Compaq and Coronavirus — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Zero Trust Information — Stratechery
China’s Decision to Leave Asymptomatic Patients off Coronavirus Infection Tally Sparks Debate — Caixin
Ben Thompson: Apple’s Organizational Crossroads — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Books and Blogs — Stratechery
Why It’s So Freaking Hard To Make A Good COVID-19 Model — FiveThirtyEight