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19 Dec, 16 tweets, 9 min read
"We are doing twice as much per-capita testing as Phoenix" has never made anyone in NYC feel better about anything.

#NYC
They haven't even enforced 2 shots for @NYCSchools staff months later, and @NYCMayor's answer is that NYC city workers are "94% vaccinated."

Bless you, @katie_honan, for listening to this mess

#NYC
Competent leadership is not @NYCMayor's bailiwick

8 new testing sites by TUESDAY?

#NYC
.@NYCMayor: Send your kids to child care, "Very extensive efforts to keep childcare safe...it's the safest place for a child"

Meanwhile, pre-K kids aren't being tested and staff are barely being tested; no ventilation upgrades; what abt better masks?

@lizkimtweets

#NYC
.@lizkimtweets, ask them about verifying 2 shots for school staff. How many partially vaccinated?

#NYC
.@Mssarahmssarah , you hear that shout out about "improving ventilation?

@NYCMayor ventilation is "as easy as opening a door or window...something that helps quite a bit."

Guess he missed the @Gothamist report on window-ventilated rooms

"The way to facilitate recovery is vaccination," @NYCMayor

Then enforce your own mandates!!!

@MaraGay, ask him what % FULLY vaccinated in each agency.

#NYC
Must be tough to always be the last to know about how well your own's city services are functioning.

Major FOMO. @MaraGay

#NYC
"Let's make some policy on the fly" is the DeBlasio Doctrine

#NYC
"Policy on the fly:" It's almost like these guys are running a HS Valentine's Day Carnation Sale to raise money for the prom

@JonathanRosenBR @CelineMizrahi, the memories

#NYC
"Doing more testing than big cities like Chicago, Phoenix, and Houston"

NO ONE BENCHMARKS NYC AGAINST HOUSTON

#NYC
"Want to keep it brief because any details we can get them afterwards," @NYCMayor

Hold my beer, said all of the journalists still waiting for those details promised after a random press conference in 2020

#NYC
"The world changed in an unexpected way in just a matter of days," @NYCMayor

Nobody saw it coming...

#NYC

"It's a very highly vaccinated city," @NYCMayor

Manhattan is the most vaccinated part of the city



#NYC
"Even I am tired of @NYCMayor," said the virus

#NYC
No. NO! NO ONE was surprised!!!

Just be honest about your mistakes and fix them.

#NYC

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Jen Jennings Profile picture
21 Dec
If a tree falls in a forest, schools edition:

🌳20% NYC schools had <62% attendance yesterday
🌳25% NYC schools had <73% attendance yesterday
🌳Average NYC school: 77% attendance yesterday

If a school is open & so many kids (& staff) are missing: are they really open?

1/
Quick refresher on box plots: bottom box end is 25th percentile; line in box is median; top end is 75th

🌳1 in 4 schools in Manhattan & Brooklyn had <=70% attendance on Monday

2/
It gets even more interesting when we look at the district level...

You can each district's distribution in sheet 👇
/end

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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20 Dec
Here we go, @NYCMayor presser

"Staring today, we're sending out supervisors to our private vendors," per @MaraGay's suggestions

Maybe you could you just hire @MaraGay?

1/
Going back to the beginning

"Surge in cases for a few weeks...The answer is vaccination" - I would love to see the evidence for this projection

Also, you cannot vaccinate your way out of a surge; see @celinegounder
2/
"NYC continues to lead the way in this country in terms of huge #s vaccinated"

He is now providing 1 dose #s again

1 dose provides 30% protection against severe disease w Delta; is there anyone who thinks 1 dose is a big help for Omicron?

3/
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20 Dec
I❤️NY: the city twice as good as Phoenix

🧵12/20 Morning Update, NYC kids & schools
with a review of @NYCSchools mitigation failures
all of which can be improved by a willing administration

1/
Despite testing bottlenecks, NYC kids' cases continued to grow: 1,669 yesterday

In 2021, the previous 1 week total (Monday-Monday) was 4,757 in the week ending 1/24

Last wk's total, which I'll post tomorrow, is on track to double that 😥

2/
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Here is the DOE school-reported trend for kids & staff.

Note that these differ from lab-reported cases because they include only those that make their way from family to school to The Situation (room)

3/ Image
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7 Sep
Per the genetics & social science convo: 🧵

The most fascinating normative debates in my ed policy course come from reading Jencks (1988), "Who Must We Treat Equally for Educational Opportunity to Be Equal?"

He describes 5 ways of thinking about equal ed opportunity 1/
- Democratic equality: equal time/attention to all

- Moralistic justice: reward those making the most effort

- Weak human justice: compensate for disadvantages related to prior home & school environments, but not those relating to genetics

2/
- Strong humane justice: compensate for prior home, school, and genetic differences

- Utilitarianism: maximize avg well-being of society; focus on increasing the mean more than worrying about the variance

3/
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20 Aug
Kids' case rates in NYC are 10 times larger this week than in the same week of 2020 for kids 0-12, and 7 times larger for kids 13-17.

In light of these data, let's evaluate the argument against offering families a remote schooling option this fall. 1/ Image
In cities that have refused to offer remote, elected officials have staked their claims on what is in children’s “best interests.”

As Bill DeBlasio’s press secretary @BNeidhardt said, “If schools are safer, then why rob kids of the better education?” 2/
Ultimately, the remote question comes down to who should have the right to make judgments about what’s best for their own kids *in situations where that decision does not have a clear and immediate negative impact on others.*
(This distinguishes the remote q from masking.) 3/
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31 Jan
In the opening episode of @Princeton's spring season: I received a panicked email from a neighbor on Fri night concerned there was a break-in at my house in #Trenton. No broken glass, but front blinds amiss. 1/
NYC-->Trenton -->The Most Evil Animal in the World taunting us from the window: see lineup.

Not my first rodeo. I lost 3 wars @Princeton with dorm-intruding squirrels. Still bitter about the one who ate my pralines.

Per Trenton history, it was General Mercer. (upper left) 2/
General Mercer took the re-enactment of the Battles of Princeton and Trenton very seriously. And won.

Fun fact: General Mercer likes to chew. Wood is king, but won't say no to polyamory with a sweet-faced couch.

Below: Trenton Makes, General Mercer Takes My Whole House. 3/
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