Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
9/ I can't tell you how many people have asked me if they should travel to certain cities- we are left to our own devices to figure out where there is sustained community transmission. I can find no official webpage that updates this key status for the US.
@CDCgov must do better
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
7/ Exhausting our public health workforce with contact tracing, asymptomatic testing and active monitoring when the cat is out of the bag is not just wasteful, it actively undermines our ability to mount an effective response to an outbreak that is just beginning to explode.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
There is a reason for canceling public gatherings. In a pandemic, don't be Philadelphia (held a parade in 1918 when cases started to come up, downplayed cases), be St. Louis (canceled gatherings). More here: pnas.org/content/104/18/7582 @mlipsitch
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
So far, response in SF bay is reminiscent of diamond princess. That was a disaster. I hope there are different plans in place but so far: testing only ~100 ppl, focusing on ppl present on the previous leg of the voyage only, keeping them all on board...
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/03/05/h…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
New: Facebook Removes Misleading Trump Census Ads, Its First Stand Against Census Misinformation nyti.ms/2vL4k03
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Texas closed 750 polling places after SCOTUS gutted Voting Rights Act, more than any other state
72% of closures came in 50 counties with fastest growth of blacks & Latinos
And last night Democrats & minority voters in Houston waited 6 hours to vote
motherjones.com/politics/202…
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One thing I accomplished at this week's @w3ctag meeting in Wellington🇳🇿 was landing a PR to add the beginnings of a new section to our design principles document, on some principles behind the design of features on the Web: w3ctag.github.io/design-prin…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Now seems highly likely that there has been undetected community transmission ongoing in parts of the upper West Coast for weeks, at least.
How did we end up with major surveillance failure on par with Italy and Iran?
Let's talk about how that happens.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This is extraordinarily bad
Government health officials and scientists will have to clear statements about the coronavirus outbreak with the office of Vice President Mike Pence, in an effort to tighten the White House’s control of messaging about the virus
nyti.ms/3a7omjV
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
UPDATE: Patient being treated for coronavirus in Sacramento came to hospital last week but was not tested by CDC, despite requests from local health officials, according to UC Davis Medical Center email.
sfchronicle.com/health/artic…
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The United States has done only 445 tests for COVID-19, or 1.36 per million people in the country.
New Zealand has done 121 tests for COVID-19, or 24.4 per million people in the country.
Sources:
cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nco…
health.govt.nz/news-media/ne…
populations from Wikipedia
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
First U.S. coronavirus case with unknown source in Solano County, patient is being treated in Sacramento County sfchronicle.com/health/artic… @erinallday
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So is this:
* Facebook trying to imply that the NHS has better health advice than the US government (or California), or
* a sign that Facebook's algorithm for where I am is simply "the last place I gave it location permission" (which I think was Heathrow Airport, on Feb 1)?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This is an astonishing situation -- South Korea has done 35,000+ coronavirus tests. The US has done ~400 and the rollout of testing capability nationwide has been held up by a faulty test.
NEW: Testing for coronavirus in U.S. is key to understanding how widely it may be spreading in communities. But a faulty CDC coronavirus test has been repeatedly delayed. w @carolynyjohnson @lauriemcginley2 washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Nearly every country on Earth: We need to halve roadway deaths by 50% in ten years. We can do this. No excuses.
USA: Ugh, that sounds *hard.* Do we have to?
bit.ly/2HSVn7e
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
yearly reminder: when you pay turbotax money to do your taxes, you are in part paying for the tax system to remain complicated enough for turbotax to stay in business.
taxes for most people could take 0-5min but turbotax lobbies against it
vox.com/2016/3/29/11320386/t…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This truck was in the parking lot of the Silicon Valley office park where I work. The bumper is designed to kill on contact. Most of us bike to work. This is street legal and we’ve got mayors freaking out over 50 lb scooters.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
It's outrageous trucks have been allowed to increase in height to the point their hoods are at the roof level of other vehicles. There's only so much engineers can do to make streets safe. Deaths due to these trucks are on lawmakers who allow the #CarLobby to dictate regulations.
Woman killed after driving into path of pickup truck while leaving Clark Co. school, deputies say bit.ly/3bTg4h0
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Trump's acting DNI didn't tell the government about his foreign lobbying work, potentially violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. As a result, @NatlSecCnslrs opined, "he should not have a clearance." Great scoop by @iarnsdorf propublica.org/article/trump…
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