People really underestimate how much this nuked trust in public health. Even Macedo and Lee's In Covid's Wake, a book that is generally critical of public health during covid and which Bsky discusses as if it was an RFK Jr book on MMR vaccines, doesn't mention it.
Dozens of public health and disease experts have signed an open letter in support of the nationwide anti-racism protests.
"White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19," they wrote.
https://t.co/EewPNgDSu3
@sweater__weathr I have no problem with factoring in number of socially vulnerable people near the vax site. People without transportation, flexible schedules, or just who put a low priority on vaccination are worth saving and so making it easier for them will push down aggregate mortality.
@sweater__weathr I had in mind stuff like prioritizing essential workers over the elderly despite the massive difference in covid mortality and explicitly justifying it on racial grounds. I forget the name of the antiviral a bit later but I know some states gave points for race in allocating it.
@sweater__weathr The one place I disagree with you on "it was just some grad students and senior people prioritize infectious disease and base rates" is that many public health services, including some in red states, explicitly prioritized vaccine deployment to maximize equity, not QALY.
@RogueWPA I know you know this, but also an important difference between early career academia where the thing you're selling is ability to get NIH $ and industry where most people live where base rates and market size matter
@RogueWPA This is a real shame because the list of signatories are largely grad students and public health practitioners, and not many tenured/influential epidemiologists. They're not totally absent, but if you know who you're looking for the absences are as notable as the signatures.
@sweater__weathr Also predictable given how much the field shifted it's mission to inequality (mostly stemming from lifestyle disease) and lost the plot that the mission is bringing down the base rate, and bringing down the odds ratios ought to be decidedly secondary.
I set this calendar reminder when Raman voted against making catalytic converters presumptively stolen property and blamed Toyota for assuming their cars would be driven in a lawful society. I am all in favor of a permit shot click, etc, but not from an anti-cop psycho.
I would love to see Los Angeles elect a YIMBY who doesn't impose so many new tenant side regs that nothing pencils out and doesn't put people experiencing a feral lifestyles right to mayhem above law-abiding taxpayers. In the meantime, I am delighted that Raman is out.
Incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass secured a spot on the November ballot and Spencer Pratt was running in second place as of early Wednesday morning, ahead of progressive city councilwoman Nithya Raman and 11 lesser-known candidates as more ballots were being counted.
No candidate appears likely to exceed the 50% threshold to win outright, which means the top two will meet head-to-head in the November election. https://t.co/FNPTG9WkAm
Big new Roosevelt Institute economic agenda very correctly identifies hyper-localism leading to overregulation as a big problem on housing, but then also insists on labeling housing an example of a policy area that has been left "entirely at the mercy of markets."
Prediction market Kalshi has reported former Rep. George Santos to prosecutors over a bet he made on himself, a person familiar with the investigation says. https://t.co/26MdbxO8yq
In organized crime college they don't even wait until the first lecture but just cover it in freshman orientation that it is really bad for you if people who can testify against you are facing serious prison time, amd it doesn't matter if you aren't a co-defendant.
Reminds me of how in The Firm, the mafia is somehow fine with Tom Cruise helping the FBI indict their law firm once he explains it's just for overbilling, as if the FBI's whole plan wasn't to flip the lawyers to testify against the mob.
worked for a law firm briefly and within like three weeks of being there found out they were just stealing probably millions of dollars. they got raided by the feds like a month later lol
@jneeley78@jbarro Bernie is not a failson like Platner and Fetterman were before their time in politics.
(Maybe Bernie was before he was in politics, but that was decades ago and he has been a disciplined and energetic politician for as long as I can remember).
Why did leftists decide that manifestly low conscientiousness is a mark of "authenticity"? They did it with Fetterman, it blew up in their face, and now they've done it again with Platner: falling in love with an obviously unreliable underemployed weirdo. https://t.co/cid5VoEtsW
@memeticsisyphus I guess "had a gun but (allegedly) dropped it is technically unarmed," but it's unarmed in the same sense as Clinton saying he didn't fuck Lewinsky because he didn't do anything that might stimulate her genitals.