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by usaar333 6y ago
That somewhat exaggerates things. There are fewer "deaths" over the weekend due to reporting delays. It's still 500+.
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by usaar333 6y ago
It's both. Hospitalization is up, so it's really unlikely infections aren't also up.
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by usaar333 6y ago
California has plenty of contact tracers and testing. Rt is still above 1.
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by usaar333 6y ago
That's the goal of a nontrivial number of social conservatives.
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by usaar333 6y ago
The regional variance in covid infection rates in Canada is high. Covid has always been at a relatively low level in BC, but severe in Quebec. (15x the death rate). One wonders if you'll consequently see very difficult economic recove
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by usaar333 6y ago
Top 9% of students in the state have UC guarantee ( https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi... ) by pure test scores and grades. Yeah, you might not get Berkeley, but an A+ student is guaranteed admission
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by usaar333 6y ago
? Have you ever been to SF? That's not true for the general population and even less true for youth. And the white youth that are there tend to go to private schools https://priceonomics.com/where-are-all-the-white-peo
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by usaar333 6y ago
That's a function of local demographics as well though. Lowell high school in San Francisco has those numbers but that's in part due to (more affluent than average) whites long fleeing the SF public schools.
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by usaar333 6y ago
> The argument is that lack of privilege causes poor SAT scores which is preventing certain minorities from realizing their potential, and that this justifies selectively lowering the bar and allocating additional resources. The UC syste
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by usaar333 6y ago
Is there any difference in hiring between someone who attended four years at a college vs transferred in after two years at community college? (At UC Berkeley, about a third of graduates are transfers and at least while I was a student ther
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by usaar333 6y ago
Let's not exaggerate things. Comparing UC or Caltech is probably best (granted they use less controversial socioeconomic factors). Caltech is 43% Asian American vs 27% at MIT. Note that the race-neutral number is somewhere in between (
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by usaar333 6y ago
It's not really a "mistake". They were aware they lacked functionality to region block meetings and rather than reply to the Chinese government that such a request will not be possible to comply with for x days until feature
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by usaar333 6y ago
> This is a widespread societal change that I think most people are completely unaware of. The majority of women are sleeping with the top 10% of men, sometimes only the top 3-5%, with the rest barely getting any at a People aren't
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by usaar333 6y ago
You can do both. Iceland isolated their older population quite well.
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by usaar333 6y ago
1968 Hong Kong flu killed 100,000 people. (170k population adjusted)
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by usaar333 6y ago
The correction was in the original report; the markets already considered it.
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by usaar333 6y ago
Hardly that simple. Germany had banned publication until 2015.
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by usaar333 6y ago
> Indeed, but they've had many years in which to deliver and have manifestly failed to do so This is highly dependent on locality. I don't claim to follow broader national trends, but certainly things in the Bay Area have impr
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by usaar333 6y ago
Not sure about public officials, but here's an open letter explicitly supporting the protests by nearly 1300 various public health and infectious disease professionals ("We support them (protests) as vital to the national public h
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by usaar333 6y ago
Someone can be quite concerned by police violence and brutality, but still view them as essential for a stable society. (The advocates of reforming police organizations go in this bucket)
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by usaar333 6y ago
When comparing policies, you have to factor in the costs though. As a more straightforward example, it's simpler to compare countries with closed pandemics - say Iceland or New Zealand. Iceland has much higher deaths per capita, but t
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by usaar333 6y ago
Right, and smaller island countries like Iceland were able to go for border-line eradiction without a full lock down.
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by usaar333 6y ago
> Daily new infections have more than doubled here in North Carolina in the last two weeks since "reopening" Confirmed cases, not infections. The hospitalization numbers are about 30% higher or so which is about-ish how much n
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by usaar333 6y ago
* no mobile contact tracing - lots of actual. I'm not sure how much the mobile protocols would even help in protests. Don't you need proximity with someone for 30 minutes or so to be tagged a contact?
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by usaar333 6y ago
one flight per week per country per airline https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-05-28/china-wont-ease-curb... . It's extremely expensive to fly into China right now because of it.
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by usaar333 6y ago
I would think that international students from China is not only a minimal amount of the population, but also that very few have even left. (thanks to China's "five one" airline policy making it very difficult to go back to C
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by usaar333 6y ago
NYC/NJ modeling is forgivable. California's is not. ( https://www.mercurynews.com/coronavirus-how-can-the-states-m... )
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by usaar333 6y ago
It's in the article - they were worried about hospitals having insufficient capacity to deal with covid19 patients. An excellent case study on why overly pessimistic models not only lead to high economic cost, but also a cost in lives.
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by usaar333 6y ago
Except it really is when it comes to Force Majeur.
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by usaar333 6y ago
Sure, they can return some money but who knows how much was already allocated, especially with distance learning continuing. I got no refund from my kid's preschool for similar reasons. This is a really uphill legal battle

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