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19 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
another crime at Disney's door
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DOCTORA Malka Older Profile picture
19 Jan
I really hope that the inauguration will be free from disruption and violence. If it is, there will be hot takes of the "See? The threat was exaggerated" variety. As a disaster expert, I can tell you that is not a useful framing.
Reactions like that after swine flu etc are part of why we were so terribly underprepared for covid: "the low-/medium-/high-probability disaster didn't happen this time therefore it won't happen" is not solid reasoning.
And of course the preparedness itself affects how bad the impacts of the event are (which is part of why emergency management/disaster risk reduction is such a thankless job: if it goes well, no one notices). In this case that's particularly true: heavy deterrence approach.
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19 Jan
I just got my contributor's copy of Constelación #1 and I'm SO EXCITED!! constelacionmagazine.com
I've already raved about the cover illustration by @JohnPicacio but look at it! so gorgeous! Image
It means so much to me to have a story translated into Spanish. I have tías and tíos and primas who have never read my writing because they don't read English, and I'm so so so happy to have a published version I can send them. It's an amazing feeling.
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31 Dec 20
I'm reading @JincyWillett's very funny Amy Falls Down, which includes a lovely fantasy segment about someone paying for a bunch of writers to train their way across the US doing events with prosecco and some of these writers do not even have books about to come out, AND
I AM STILL MAD that we didn't get an arts stimulus package that, in addition to streaming plays and museum talks and remote concerts, would fund nightly talks and discussions by a wide range of writers and artists. I appreciate all that theaters and bookstore owners have done but
why should they (and we, because I've done lots of unpaid as well as paid events this past year) do it for free?! yes I realize that while the so-called govt is squabbling over the most basic of disaster assistance for stupid reasons we could not expect this but nonetheless we
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30 Dec 20
Module 2 moves on to an offshoot, or symptom, or maybe cause of quantification, as we consider the disproportionate role of economic thinking in how we consider the future, and the ways in which economics and sci-fic are similar. (Hint: lots of economics is imaginary too)
(Reminder: you can read the full syllabus here malkaolder.wordpress.com/2020/12/17/syl… I'm making minor edits as I review for the lectures, such as adjusting discussion questions)
(and here is the thread for Module 1: )
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30 Dec 20
disaster response is all about logistics.
The main reason the Katrina response failed was logistics. Part of that logistics failure was driven by people not caring enough, but part of it was cost-cutting and restructuring, a lot of it related to the establishment of Dept Homeland Security.
A big part of the reason that the Japan tsunami response wasn't worse was because of the voluntary and proactive contributions of private logistics actors - local trucking associations, national shipping companies.
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28 Dec 20
1st come-1st served is the worst way to do this, especially when it involves people physically arriving and waiting, because it means the most vulnerable people, who need it the most, cannot get it. Appalling, given all the other possible approaches.
The is NO REASON to make seniors -or anyone- wait outside for long periods of time. If you MUST do it 1stC-1stS, do it with some kind of remote registration, or register & go away. They know how many doses they have, how long it takes. NO REASON for that effort & uncertainty. BUT
THERE IS NO REASON TO DO IT FIRST COME FIRST SERVED. They have records of the people living in their county and their ages, and if they don't, now is a great time to have people register so that they do. There are organizations who can access people that might not be registered,
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