I want to run a thread about disabilities, independence and being in the hospital. My daughter has pneumonia and has been in the hospital getting treated for it. At home, even though she has partial hemiplegia, she is fully capable of taking care of herself. This means, getting dressed, keeping herself clean, toileting, and so on.
In the hospital, they put on heart on O2 sat monitors and hooked her up to an oxygen line with a canula. She really needs the O2. Without it, if she stands up her O2 drops into the 80s, which is bad.

I've been thinking about the blue check thing and I see a few different outcomes. The first is that one is that his goal was never monetizing checks. When I see a pressure deadline for a feature and outside engineers to look at it... ...they don't want the feature. They want to fire people for not doing an assigned task satisfactorily in allotted time, so they can fire for cause.

I was at a startup that tanked. After, it was hard to find a job in my area. I ended up teaching technology and running IT for a local school district.

https://twitter.com/IanColdwater/status/1588196171205558272

In many states, if you have applicable experience, you can get a preliminary certification for teaching. It's a challenging job. Take time to learn how to communicate the same thing multiple ways. Read up on classroom management. Read up on assessment.

For the past decade+ I've been teaching my daughter how to shop for groceries. She has Down syndrome. Today, something changes. A thread. 🧵 One of the techniques for teaching any skill is scaffolding. You set up the situation for success with a great deal of support, then over time remove the support piecemeal until hopefully it isn't needed anymore.

I was looking at covid19 mortality numbers in the US and I was struck by something. The mortality rate in MA is 2.53% which is super high. The average mortality rate in the US 1.66%. What's going on in MA? The quality of healthcare in MA is consistently ranked #1 or #2 depending on whose list/metrics you look at. It couldn't be that. MA got hit super hard in the first wave in terms of mortality as we were learning to treat this disease, so maybe that's it.

Uptick is underselling it. FL, AR, and MO are leading this. The latter two have been doubling every 2 weeks. FL had 15k cases in 1 day: 1/3 of all new cases in the US. None of them are imposing restrictions.

https://twitter.com/juliebosman/status/1415802976766238726

And FL governor has the gaul to sell "don't Fauci my Florida" swag. Guess what: in a month at ~300 of his constituents will die in one day.
AR has 35% fully vaccinated. They're fucked. Missouri is 40% fully vaccinated. They're similarly fucked.

OK - this is way cool. Way, way cool. Here's why. When I was in high school, I saw Defender and became slightly obsessed with the game (yes, I own one). I tried to implement it on the Apple II - a seriously underpowered machine for the task. One thing I spent a fair amount of time doing was trying to get the sounds right.

My local hospital posted a notice that starts with this: "Despite what you may hear from government officials or others, testing for COVID-19 is still extremely limited."
And this immediately gets to the core of the issue: in a crisis, you want a government that tells the truth. Here's a link to the full statement: cooleydickinson.org/2020/03/thank-…