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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A travel-related question I was thinking about now that I can't travel...
How does the chance that a randomly chosen hotel has laundry facilities (washer/dryer/detergent) that guests can use vary between countries?
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That was certainly what nitter.vloup.ch/XihongLin/status… suggests.
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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You should talk to @khuey_ about the correct type of macarons (and flavors he's discovered you can put in them).
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Palo Alto Whole Foods was quiet-ish around 10:45-11am today. Most of the canned beans / rice / pasta was sold out, though they were restocking the more-expensive De Cecco pastas while we were there, so those were mostly well-stocked. Meat/fish/fruit/veg all seemed normal.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Indeed, if under comparable circumstances a reporter had asked this question of a Democratic president who gave an appropriate answer telling people to keep up hope, many on the right would have been screeching about a biased press asking softball questions.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
About the question: @PeterAlexander was inviting Trump to take on the "priestly role" of the presidency--to act as the nation's consoler. He refused. Not only did he refuse, he attacked Alexander for asking for for it. Trump has never been able to perform this role.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
2020 Housing Legislation Highlights. For the current emergency, California is allowing eviction bans and leasing hotels to shelter people. For the long term, there are dozens of zoning, tenant protection, & funding bills. Details in thread and at tinyurl.com/2020housingbills 1/
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Oh, and also, a good thread from a law professor (who you should follow if you're interested in fixing patent law!):
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And to be blunt, this seems like the sort of @GavinNewsom blunder that @JerryBrownGov would not have made. Too much "looking presidential" and too little acting presidential, or competent, or getting things done.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Also, a federally defined-by-reference "Critical Infrastructure Sector" is Commercial Facilities, which includes, get this: casinos, conference centers, theme and amusement parks, fairs, campgrounds, parades, arenas, stadiums, aquariums, zoos, and museums! cisa.gov/commercial-faciliti…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
He explicitly says it's OK to walk your dog. Again: not in the text of the rather short EO at this link: covid19.ca.gov/img/N-33-20.p…
(The exemptions re exercise, etc., were detailed in the county-level shelter-in-place orders--I'm not sure why the Guv couldn't copy-paste.)
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Seems like I'm not alone with this concern (see both this tweet and the thread nested within it):
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But the actual statewide order at covid19.ca.gov/img/N-33-20.p… (which references the overly-broad cisa.gov/critical-infrastruc… for the list of critical businesses) seems very different from the 6-county order at sccgov.org/sites/phd/Disease… which appears much more carefully written.
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sfchronicle.com/politics/art… says:
"The order is similar to the shelter-in-place rules that Bay Area residents have been living under since Monday, allowing people to visit the grocery store, seek medical care, walk outside and exercise if they maintain social distance from others"
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While @sfchronicle says @GavinNewsom's statewide order is the same as the 6-county Bay Area order, the order looks like it exempts more businesses (from the information technology sector to casinos to motion picture studios) and less personal activity (jogging, dog walking)?
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China's numbers were from testing that was good enough to eliminate the disease through quarantine, so they're at least close, at least outside Wuhan.
The numbers for NYC went up by 93% today (1871 to 3615). It seems likely at least some of that is from increased testing capacity.
But given those numbers it's shocking that NYC isn't drastically restricting movement (at least like Bay Area), at least until are enough tests.
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I deleted the previous version of this tweet; I had assumed the data from coronavirus.1point3acres.com… were by county, but the "New York, New York" entry looks like all 5 counties of NYC, not just New York County (Manhattan).
Coronavirus cases per 1000 people, given current reports (which involve insufficient testing in many places):
Wuhan: 4.24
NYC: 0.44
Hubei excluding Wuhan: 0.37
New York state: 0.28
Washington state: 0.18
USA (all): 0.042
California: 0.025
China excluding Hubei: 0.010
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
NEW: After assuring the public about the government's coronavirus preparedness, Senate Intel chair Richard Burr, in one day, sold off up to $1.6 million is stock.
A week later, the market began its fall.
His committee was receiving daily briefings.
propublica.org/article/senat…
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