Free to Be You and Me. Or Not. nytimes.com/2022/12/04/opi… Still one of the best albums ever.
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Frederick Zimmerman
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Frederick Zimmerman
@Zimmermanfred
Statistical Esthete and Economist of Population Health
Santa Monica, CA Katılım Nisan 2013
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Culture is a major factor in preventing the US from achieving better health. Population health can help change culture through concrete research. @ia4phs
healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…
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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.
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@paulkrugman Wrong picture, Dude! We need water infrastructure repair, trains, bikeways, IT infrastructure. Not more massive highway projects.
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It's morning in America, but it will take a lot more effort to keep the good times rolling nytimes.com/2021/03/08/opi…
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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."
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As an amateur bread baker, I'm delighted with this ruling.
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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. riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2017/…
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Two very different views of the causes of Covid-19 deaths: nytimes.com/2020/06/03/hea… nytimes.com/interactive/20… Only one is something we can act on.
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@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.
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But I think there's a simple answer: Trump and those like him are fear mongers when that provides an excuse to punish people, especially nonwhites. They don't want to hear about risks that require self-discipline 4/
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Trump has been unable to shift away from boosterism, from pretending that everything is great on his watch, even in a pandemic 1/ nytimes.com/2020/05/21/opi…
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@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!
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This is neat. Opentable has data on restaurant reservations compared with same day last year opentable.com/state-of-indus…. It suggests that even in states that have "reopened" people are staying home 1/
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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.
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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. cyclehelmets.org/papers/c2034.p…
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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.
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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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@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.
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This new initiative from Warren looks much more workable politically than immediate transition to single-payer. If she wins (and Dems take the Senate), the immediate plan is for a sort of expanded ACA plus public option 1/ nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/…
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curbed.com/2019/7/19/2070…
"...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."
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