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
this is the 1st time I'm seeing somebody with a significant academic profile (a @HarvardBiostats Professor indeed) talking about this. If you watched Wuhan carefully (maybe from afar), there was a major shift in how the city conducts quarantines 1/
Yes. The quarantine-at-home strategy used between 1/23-2/1 in Wuhan ie, some confirmed cases were isolated at home, helped reduce R from 3.8 to 1.25, but not good enough. An important lesson for us to learn. Centralized quarantine of confirmed cases after 2/1 was effective(R=0.3)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Big newsrooms may need to take political reporters – and editors on the political desk – "entirely out of the loop" on the Coronavirus story, says @froomkin. "It’s too damned important to be covered as a two-sided battle over who’s winning the narrative." presswatchers.org/2020/03/ge…
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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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Not too surprising that @NWSBayArea, whose forecast area includes @Twitter HQ, is near the top (#3).
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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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By my standards for New Zealand, "accessible by paved roads from either Auckland or Christchurch" isn't all *that* remote...😜
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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It's not just about tech trends, but also about changing how information moves. I've seen journalists speculate that the end of Google Reader pushed journalists to depend less on feeds of trusted sources and more on things they get from social media (& click-driven algorithms).
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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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I can no longer describe Wuhan to people as "probably the largest city in China that you haven't heard of". More than 2 months ago, I think there was a decent chance of that being correct.
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But the PDF I have bookmarked (and generally prefer) is cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/f…
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I don't recall finding useful layers for drawing a map, but I remember getting data out of it when clicking on individual parcels. (I'd found it helpful when dealing with areas in the SOFA area plan, but now prefer PDFs.)
I think I found the URL, too: data.cityofpaloalto.org/visu…
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Also, the WHO report that came out today-ish seems like a particularly trustworthy summary of the situation: nitter.vloup.ch/coopesdetat/stat…