Frederick Zimmerman

Statistical Esthete and Economist of Population Health

[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

Free to Be You and Me. Or Not. https://t.co/BQOJmX8X1i Still one of the best albums ever.

[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

Culture is a major factor in preventing the US from achieving better health. Population health can help change culture through concrete research. @ia4phs
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[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

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[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

Senator Lana Theis accused me by name of grooming and sexualizing children in an attempt to marginalize me for standing up against her marginalizing the LGBTQ community...in a fundraising email, for herself.

Hate wins when people like me stand by and let it happen. I won't.

[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

New paper in SSM-PH: Over the past 50 years, health equity has risen for children; stagnated for working-age adults and declined for those >65. Despite lip service, we are not succeeding with health equity.
https://t.co/syc6lzMIUb

[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

@paulkrugman Wrong picture, Dude! We need water infrastructure repair, trains, bikeways, IT infrastructure. Not more massive highway projects.

[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

Paraphrasing Ronald Reagan: "Well, the trouble with our [Republican] friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."

[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

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As an amateur bread baker, I'm delighted with this ruling.

[Danny Wicentowski @D_Towski]

Today in 1917, an explosion of white and police violence directed at East St. Louis' blacks left dozens dead and a nation horrified. A grand jury indicted 7 cops for murder, rioting, and conspiracy. The charges were dropped. The cops were fined $150. https://t.co/E3rWSs0nk9

[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

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[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

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[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

Two very different views of the causes of Covid-19 deaths: https://t.co/3B2IXeBgPt https://t.co/WuLxbvYP4K Only one is something we can act on.

[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

Two very different views of the causes of Covid-19 deaths: https://t.co/3B2IXeBgPt https://t.co/WuLxbvYP4K Only one is something we can act on.

[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

@paulkrugman Krugman is right on this and @JonHaidt was wrong. Republicans' professed values of purity, family, community, honor, valor are no match for elite right-wing brainwashing.

[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

@paulkrugman There is a huge difference epidemiologically between 100% of restaurants conducting 20% of normal business and 20% of restaurants conducting 100% of normal business. Because of fixed costs, we'll likely get a small number of busy restaurants. And a big new outbreak for dessert!

[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

The Very Serious People are calling for moderation among Democrats. Actually, given the threats to the climate, economy, and democracy, caution requires radicalism.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

1/OK I want to rant about Warren, Bernie, the primary election, and how the topic shifted from stuff I was passionate about to stuff that leaves me cold.

[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

If you want safer biking infrastructure, it's all about road design and driver speed. Almost no one in Copenhagen wears a helmet and their cyclist death rate is 80% lower than in the US. https://t.co/N27nBYIm3p

[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

Now the Feds are pushing national bike helmet laws. This is the wrong way to achieve bike safety. It confuses the determinants of individual health with the determinants of population health. They're different. #Pophealth
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[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

For any individual in any particular situation wearing a bike helmet makes you safer. But mandating that everyone wear a bike helmet can make everyone less safe. Why? Less biking; less driver awareness of bikes; less caution. Moral hazard among both bikers and drivers.

[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

@paulkrugman It’s more than that—it shows she can find a face-saving way to climb down from unworkable plans while still preserving a path to her progressive goals.

[Frederick Zimmerman @Zimmermanfred]

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"...urban perks mean absolutely nothing if parents must each work two jobs just to stay in a two-bedroom apartment, leaving them no free time to take their children there to enjoy them."