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8 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The US has had a system of strict vaccine requirements for school attendance for 40+ years. Thanks to that program, we know vaccine mandates work. But we also know that getting them implemented isn't simple. Be prepared for loopholes and mess.

fivethirtyeight.com/features/vacci…
School entrance mandates are the single most effective thing we’ve done to achieve high vaccination rates in the US, said James Colgrove, a professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University. “Can you achieve it through voluntary means? No. Not really,” he told me.
But you also can't "set and forget" a vaccine mandate. Making them work takes enforcement, which is expensive and conflicts with other public good goals, like making sure all kids have access to public education.

fivethirtyeight.com/features/vacci…
Making vaccine mandates work also means dealing with loopholes. In 2015, California began eliminating opt-outs for religious and personal beliefs. Then came more laws, public infrastructure, and prosecution of rogue doctors. fivethirtyeight.com/features/vacci…

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Realizing this was a staged press shot and all, it is still highly representative of the early-to-mid 20th century aesthetic of "Casual clothes do not exist" which blows my mind to this day.
I grew up on the very tail end of this concept: Separate clothes for school and play were part of the hangover, because you still sent kids to school dressed up as though they weren't going to just get filthy there.
Thank god Western culture went slovenly because I really don't know how I would have managed a life where I needed to devote a chunk of my executive functioning to me and my family looking smart and put together at literally all times.
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24 Jun
Look, we can have debates about the best detailed policy response to rampant racism and unchecked violence in policing. We can have debates about how best to reduce crime.

But as someone who currently lives in Minneapolis, what @tomfriedman is saying here is a lie.
Tuesday night I rode a dumb yuppie electric bike from one of the statistically most high crime neighborhoods in the city to another. It was a great evening. If this is what dystopian ghost town hellscapes look like I'll take it.
The parks are full of people, like usual. The roads are full of cyclists (much to the consternation of my more-car-oriented loved ones). My oldest kid is learning to walk to the fish and chicken place on the corner and pay for a bottle of Faygo on her own.
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16 Mar
Here’s my hot take: this isn’t about the blood clots. But it’s also not bonkers. It’s about the bigger picture on AstraZeneca and a sense of “bad news” that’s formed around it ...
AstraZeneca, if you don't recall, has ... had some shit happening. It's clinical trials were paused for safety concerns last fall nytimes.com/2020/09/19/hea…
Which maybe wouldn't be a big red flag to me except that then it turned out they'd been administering doses wrong and tracking and disclosing their data poorly. nytimes.com/2020/11/25/bus…
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15 Mar
I don't know if this is a Hot Take or something other Northside residents would nod along with, but my fantasy Blue Line extension would go up 7th Ave and Emerson to Broadway. Why?
1) Traffic calming. 7th Ave and Emerson are both speeding shitshows. And maybe a big ass train lumbering along could, like, convince the dudes going 70 in the bike lane that they will lose this fight.
2) Schools. But if you took the train up 7th and Emerson you would provide good access to two magnet elementary schools, a high school, and a jr. high. The alignment up Lyndale is decent for this (though Bethune is more left out) and is my favorite of the existing plans.
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5 Mar
So this is probably going to get me yelled at, but I want to talk a little about a sci com issue around the J&J vaccine and how well it works.

The official take in sci com and public health seems to be that it's just as good as Pfizer and Moderna ... which is correct, sorta ...
Pfizer, Moderna and J&J all prevent hospitalization and death -- severe illness -- at a damn near 100% rate. That is great. And, to that extent, folks are ABSOLUTELY correct to take the "getting vaccinated with whatever is best, brand doesn't matter" approach.

BUT
There's other stuff at play here. Because we've also been telling people that Pfizer/Moderna are 95% effective at preventing symptomatic illness and that J&J is about 70% effective at that.

And to that extent, telling people J&J is just as good ... looks like lying.
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A discussion about how great empanadas are led to the realization that in a Star Trek Federation of Planets scenario, the aliens' stereotype of "Earth Food" is definitely "humans put whatever inside of bread" ...
Imagine whole "Earth Restaurants" that are just poorly understood and nonsensical mashups of hot dogs, Cornish pasties and beirochs ... in one.
A turkey sandwich, but cooked like a pot sticker. And sold for twice as much by some Alpha Centaurian who thinks they can speak Cantonese but are actually speaking Welsh.
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