Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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Wow, California has only 9.3% of the Coronavirus cases when we have 12% of the population. I had thought things were worse than average in California, but I guess New York and Washington are really pushing the average up.
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This Chinese researcher developed a quick test for COVID-19. Here is why, after 25 years at U of Florida, he didn't develop the test in the US propublica.org/article/the-t…
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The "workers drive the longest distance" -- is that as a share of all workers, or a share of workers who drive? It seems to be adjusting to the places where it's not possible to get to work other than by driving...
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You're still allowed to do during-quarantine food shopping.
Though I do recommend trying to do it as infrequently as possible. We've been trying to limit to two grocery stores total, each once a week or so (staggered).
(And stores were *much* emptier yesterday than Monday!)
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Is it putting the housing in the places where the supercommuters live or the place where the supercommuters work?
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Can also look at buybacks or dividends as the opposite of a public offering of new stock (e.g., an IPO).
A buyback says that the company has more cash on hand than it has better-than-market-return uses for.
A stock offering is saying that a company has good uses for new cash.
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It would be nice if the US had a president who could give a speech like this.
Earlier today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed Canadians and gave an update on the Government of Canada’s response to #COVID19.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The Speaker was encouraged by the Chairman’s perspective that with interest rates at nearly zero Congress is enabled to fiscally think big as we craft a robust response.
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Volunteers 3D-Print Unobtainable $11,000 Valve For $1 To Keep Covid-19 Patients Alive; Original Manufacturer Threatens To Sue tdrt.io/hOu
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
How US production of coronavirus tests stalled for six weeks and fell behind the world. W/ @neenareports washingtonpost.com/business/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Trump faced a series of choices: Take aggressive measures to slow the spread of the virus? Ramp up efforts to produce test kits. Urge Americans to take precautions? Above all, use the presidency to reduce the number of sick people?
He did none of it.
nytimes.com/2020/03/15/opini…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
America has always been at its best when we pull together in common cause. The challenges we face will require sacrifice, but we all have a responsibility to do everything we can to keep one another safe. If you don’t absolutely need to leave home—don’t.
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Via @reuters: "Berlin is trying to stop Washington from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the U.S., prompting German politicians to insist no country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine."
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
While Trump lies for his own political interest and refuses to "take responsibility," coronavirus is spreading across America.
Trump’s lies are costing American lives.
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But I think nitter.vloup.ch/XihongLin/status… makes it clear that it's not enough for containment
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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I think the likely range of answers to these questions should influence the decisions on how extreme the measures we should be willing to take to get containment.
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Questions I'm wondering about tonight, about COVID-19:
1. If we give up on containment, what happens? Does it go around the world and go away, or does it become endemic?
2. If it becomes endemic, how does this change human life expectancy (in developed & developing countries)?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This day will be a terrible turning point, seeding many communites. Visible in a month or so.😢 In the name of enhanced screening!!!
Passengers waited in line for hours at customs at @DFWAirport. Many concerned about being so close to others during the #COVIDー19 outbreak. The airport saying “CBP officers and the CDC are following federal guidelines to conduct enhanced screening for passengers” @FOX4
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