Shashank Tripathi

Colourful egg, hardboiled in places, softboiled in others, mostly sunny side up. Interests too wide for my own good, but let’s start with Hello.. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

These skeuomorphic animal inspirations are PR-friendly. But one hopes we will soon untether our imagination from the past, stop being limited by four limbs and a face, and approach tasks with more creative visions. Why not combine a snake and an octopus,…https://t.co/es1vy4CPqy

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

Our appetite for risk, laid bare by the common misery of a pandemic— “A woman who avoids dark lanes on her evening walk takes a greater mortal risk walking down the aisle, and would be better off carrying a lock knife than a bouque…https://t.co/oROs1ZKIdm https://t.co/7T3HTq5sNA

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

Excellent point about cheap, mass RT-LAMP testing that finds the truly infectious, instead of the flawed PCR test that yields non infectious “positives”, despite high expense & time.

https://t.co/UDWVkboLqJ

@MLevitt_NP2013 @MartinKulldorff @FatEmperor @BallouxFrancois

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

@phil_157 @TinaYazdani None are needed. We have enough data now from the world.

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

American Airlines received US$ 6 billion in bailout in April 2020:
https://t.co/Ooj7PBg9bg

In August 2020, they'd like to fire 19,000 employees:
https://t.co/cWBj4d2f2f

#covid19millionares

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

Decision makers tend to be white collar. Explains why policy has a blind spot to the under privileged. Trying to protect the ones that seem similar to us, at the cost of others.

https://t.co/ZRlMrBgP5x

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

Concentrated vs distributed corporate #decisionmaking.

[Andrew Jones @andrewjns]

@chamath We did related research in 2010. How a company organized (in this case around social media engagement, which was new to corporate) was mostly based on maturity and team sizes; industry to a lesser extent.

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

@profgalloway 2/ Most states in US are already on the downtrend in fatalities (including AZ and FL if counted by Day of Death, and not the reporting mess that includes Day of Reporting) and we should highlight that to build confidence, instead of this constant political messaging.

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

@profgalloway Completely agree with your general sentiment, but this reasoning is not what you want. Germany's size is akin to a couple of states in the US, and it is generally more homogeneous. Annual mortality from respiratory viruses is MUCH lower than US; varied general health. 1/

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

@MiliVanili2020 @profgalloway Most countries have diverse definitions of what constitutes a Covid death. US' is highly inclusive given the CDC guidelines of 'assumed Covid', which many hospitals have utilized. Germany's is clear. Anyway, the annual all cause deaths excess is the right metric.

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

@Perky3327 @chamath Some resources being centralized make a lot of sense, but day to day operations and decisions can be distributed.

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

Some sanity in this brilliant piece of writing from Australia/NZ, where 'zero cases' delusion is in full pursuit. Awaiting a vaccine that may never arrive, while ensuring monkey-wrenching the economy and other health tolls. #covid19australia #covid19

https://t.co/Syfb8Sljow

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

Brilliant writing. This is how science should be written in communications. #Science #Immunology #tcellmemory #antibodytesting #COVID19

https://t.co/2RrGbgo7GX

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

Social attitudes to Covid, and risk perception and behaviour in general, are an interesting minefield. An average person would respond differently to these two pieces of information: “you have a 1% chance of dying” or “you have a…https://t.co/FmHUnds0A6 https://t.co/WWV9LHUeif

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

#covidhumor

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

Among the most insightful things you’ll see about the current kerfuffle. Just a 2-minute video that lays patterns of Covid against the influenza-like diseases across different hemispheres, based on the iconic book on the subject. #covid19 #data

https://t.co/Okv5sYOIIP

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

Fascinating analysis of what “deaths yesterday” in mainstream media means. Lagged reporting across multiple days. Why NYT etc can not hire data experts is anyone’s guess. #analytics #COVID19

[Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic]

Today a twist on the Hot 50 Chart. The Hot 50 Death reporting counties. As you can see, these counties have NO case growth now for 23 days straight. Peak on 15 July.

The counties in red did 3 days of majority legacy data laundering. The actual death rate was much lower.

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

In other news. Kodak riding the Covid wave, of all things. #kodk 💪🏼

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

@cali_rn @MLeeBaxter1 @daniellevitt22 In a portion of the critical patients, yes. Just as pulmonary complications happen in influenza A, B and pneumonia. Over the vast base of infected this is a minuscule ratio.

[Shashank Tripathi @Shanx]

@cali_rn @daniellevitt22 Going by all other coronaviruses in recent years (four epidemics; but no lockdown hysteria), when they peter out they’re gone. SARS basically “disappeared” after eight months.