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
Can’t believe people are debating holidays. Heath care workers are exhausted. So many breaking points. It’s not worth the harm. My father snd uncle died within weeks this summer. I couldn’t get home, we couldn’t grieve together. It was terrible, but everyone is ok. Don’t do this.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Negative results from two types of tests are now required for people flying into China: a test for the virus, and a test for antibodies. Experts are baffled. nyti.ms/3pqymx9
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
An informative thread on the vaccination rate that is needed to end COVID and the historical vaccination rates in US, which are considerably lower than the needed rate. Combined efforts of vaccination and public health non-pharmaceutical interventions are needed
Interim results on Pfizer vaccine are promising
But getting safe doses to those who would benefit most depends on reversing a trend that has defined this pandemic:
to quote Isaac Asimov, “science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom” 1/
theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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There's been outdoor dining in California for a while. It's getting a tad cold for it. Yesterday was probably the warmest evening of the week; Palo Alto was 14°C at 19:00 (but intermittent light rain); on Sunday (8 November) was about 10°C at 19:00, 3°C at 22:00.
Is 72 hours notice a new state requirement? (I don't recall that existing back in March.) Seems like a bad idea, given exponential growth and delayed measurement...
Plus, when they opened indoor dining a month (?) ago, I think it was already clear things were turning bad in other places as the weather got colder and people closed windows. It seemed like a clearly bad idea when it started.
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Also, when you're on an exponential growth curve, slowing it down four days earlier is a big deal, probably worth throwing out some food if it can't be put to other uses (which most probably can).
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So this announcement is: "COVID-19 is getting bad here, so we're going to close indoor dining on Tuesday of next week". Why not sooner? Seems like just asking for an extra four days of spread.
BREAKING: Santa Clara and Other Bay Area Counties Move to Contain Spread of COVID-19: sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pag…
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Seems like more than an Iota of a chance we'll have a Tropical Storm Iota today or tomorrow. Perhaps a fitting cap to the season would be a Tropical Storm Kappa?
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And no, the 18th wasn't competitive either, and the things I heard Kumar's campaign seemed to focus on state issues (NIMBY!) rather than federal ones. So Eshoo was an easy choice, even though she doesn't appear to be particularly effective.
By rousing you mean all the Republicans voted for the more left-wing Democrat (who was the one endorsed by the state party!) because he was somebody other than the Democrat they knew, but the incumbent not endorsed by the state party won anyway?
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Most of the safe districts in California still have R-D general elections. Some of them end up with D-D or R-R general elections, but it's not the majority.
e.g., this year, the Bay Area only had 2 congressional districts with D-D generals (12 Pelosi-Buttar, 18 Eshoo-Kumar)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Klain is exceptionally good at that work. There was no one in the Obama WH, in my reporting, spoken of as highly by as many different factions, across so many different dimensions of the job.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
BREAKING - President-elect Joe Biden will name Ron Klain, a longtime Democratic operative and close confidant, as his chief of staff as early as tomorrow morning. w/ @maggieNYT @katieglueck @thomaskaplan nytimes.com/2020/11/11/us/po…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Watch this remarkable confrontation between a former Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and Paul Kelly, editor-at-large for one of Murdoch's key properties, The Australian. The subject is climate change and the Murdoch empire's disastrous legacy.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Chancellor #Merkel congratulates @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris. The German-American friendship has proved its worth over many decades, as #9 November, a special day in German history, also reminds us. #Election2020
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