Ed Zotti

City at the Crossroads columnist for Chicago Sun-Times. Formerly editor of the Straight Dope

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Pandemic medical supply shortages have shown how crazy it was to let so much U.S. manufacturing be shipped overseas. Chicago can help bring it back. https://t.co/Uwk2R5MUzB

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We can get this fricking pandemic over with, provided we're willing to make a tough choice. And no, it's doesn't involve sacrificing the vulnerable https://t.co/BPbJNM6Wsb

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Rebuilding Bronzeville , and why that's important https://t.co/bdyMDLlhjh

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… we can't just ease restrictions and hope for the best. Tomas Pueyo, who's been on the money so far, explains https://t.co/0QhPHSBfgH

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Is it time to lift stay-at-home orders? We know a lot more now than we did a month ago https://t.co/LvPEbNlKue But ...

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Here's an argument city dwellers are going to have to contend with - that mass transit, specifically the NY subway, helped spread Covid-19 https://t.co/LvPEbNlKue

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Richard Florida offers his thoughts on how Toronto can re-open after the pandemic - much of this holds true for Chicago https://t.co/yUbYOEGLi1

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Well, that got messed up. Nothing against Mitch, but I was mainly trying to tweet MY column about the river https://t.co/RHXSDhiCS3

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Got the COVID-19 blues? Take a bike ride along the Chicago River https://t.co/RHXSDhiCS3 The bridge even hums when the wind is right! https://t.co/z3Ahpu0dtU

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Things you may not know about Zoom that you definitely should: https://t.co/Bf78fWdGYj

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The Economist succinctly explains what we need to do to control COVID-19 in non-authoritarian countries - and technology is a big part of it: https://t.co/AllFTklNMQ

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In China, you have to scan an app to get on the subway https://t.co/ch5mWX1S3C Hard to see this happening in the U.S., but how will we get people to use mass transit post-COVID otherwise?

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Here's what CDC and FEMA think we need to do to let us get out of lockdown. Contact tracing is on the list, but it's way down there https://t.co/YlQk1b8SsO

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More ruminations on how COVID-19 may permanently alter urban life. Not saying we're all going to live in yurts on the Gobi, but we'll need to do things a little differently:
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It's aggregate analysis, not contact tracing, but at least Chicago is using technology to track this thing: https://t.co/54WDP6jXIc

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Once the pandemic winds down, how do we get people to use mass transit again? They're wondering about it in Boston right now https://t.co/EMYEdHThMm

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So, here's how Apple and Google enable contact tracing: they provide APIs (you know what APIs are, right?) that enable third-party apps to do contact tracing. We're all going to have to understand these details soon https://t.co/yBhHpRgsOB

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Singapore says digital contact tracing isn't going to stop the pandemic all by itself https://t.co/IYvuTF3p6c. True, but Oxford study says traditional contact tracing all by itself is too slow https://t.co/4lL2UifMDJ Obvious answer: we need to do both

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@greenfieldjohn @baranpower @DrBourbonstein @TimeOutChicago @SkywayChicago @RogersParkMan @whet @greenfieldjohn Your wish my command - see https://t.co/3y5HhGXs45. Why the interest?