Joseph Torres

un latino blanco

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@shljpg yeah it's a whole thing they're pushing now

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@alth0u it's cause assyrians are still around

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@shljpg top feature of the decade

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@alth0u feels like you can easily leave it fuzzy by not looking at the itemized breakdown

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@alth0u have you seen the forgotten weapons guy

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@JenniferCWang @paulkrugman I don't really follow how it *reduces* exoticism, to demand that Trader Joe's should only use white people's names on its products.

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@JDJD2814 @NRafter @NateSilver538 It's not about logic. It's about the visceral emotional reaction of being told that we're all collectively sacrificing our social gatherings, then turning on the TV and seeing crowds singing and dancing and marching in the the streets. How could we not feel betrayed?

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@Pinboard TSA regulations prohibit bringing viruses through the security checkpoint, so most people dispose of their viruses in advance to avoid secondary screening

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@MacaesBruno Singapore is by Western standards an extraordinarily authoritarian state. It would be equally inconceivable in the West to ban chewing gum or cane someone for vandalism, even though these policies are undoubtedly possible and effective at accomplishing their intended goals.

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@JDG_1980 @mattparlmer The idea that national solidarity is dead is largely manufactured by a small number of activists who never liked it in the first place. By any metric I can think of, the vast majority of Americans retain a strong and proud national identity.

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@NickSzabo4 @KeithNHumphreys And when Seoul found a new cluster of dozens of cases, they didn't say "it's cool test and trace will handle it", they closed every bar in the city and yelled at people for not wearing masks. The idea that test & trace is a panacea seems limited to countries that aren't doing it.

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@DKThomp @Noahpinion If government shutdowns don't cause a measurable change in the parameters they were meant to influence, doesn't that suggest that they're bad policy?

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@two5five @Pinboard It's likely that we never will entirely figure it out. Epidemiology is one of those fields that even with perfect hindsight doesn't become easy.

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@browserdotsys @alt_kia Yeah, the scale shifts the mental image from "guy in one of those cool isolation wards on House" to "weird isolation camp in the middle of nowhere". (But bad mental image is very fixable!)

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@jeremyfaust @PostOpinions @carlosdelrio Don't many states already have excess deaths at or below the baseline?

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@RobTherkelsen @matthewsimila @SeanTrende @benshapiro Testing's better, and we've learned a few things about treatment. There's reason to hope it's enough to prevent a spike, and anyway the states reopening are doing it slowly enough to see a spike coming.

People who said we'd get a vaccine before opening up were being dishonest.

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@Pinboard Ecuadorian sources generally believe the official death tolls are an order of magnitude too low. They're reporting all the same stories from northern Italy about hospitals and morgues with literally no space available.

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@FearIsNotPanic @webdevMason @micahcohen I'd argue the very conservative group has maintained a consistent level of worry, "take reasonable precautions and prepare for significant disruption". The rest of the country's just lapped them, demanding precautions and causing disruptions far beyond what they expected.

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@delexical @NateSilver538 It seems like it reveals a serious blind spot among public health experts. I've seen a lot of graphs and analysis from public experts, and none of them have included a "people no longer feel like complying" term.