B of A: “Grandma Isn’t Back at Restaurants. .. concerns around COVID likely continued to weigh down spending by the older generations but it suggests further upside potential in spending for these households in the coming months once the Omicron wave fades.”
Huh
Elise Hu @elisewho
The White House's COVID messaging strategy sounds pretty incoherent. They want to "reset people's expectations" but they don't want to do a "hard pivot" and they also don't want to do anything substantive like revising mask guidance.
politico.com/news/2022/02/0…
Irony is that one thing the Biden administration probably *could* do is signal to Northeastern liberals—where COVID has fallen dramatically and vax rates are high—to fully resume social/civic life. But maybe the WH is staffed by people who need to hear that message themselves.
Josh Barro @jbarro
dropping my post on the wordcel v rotator history. there's a lotta newcomers so i want to give them context (and also stake my claim). for the love of god don't take this too seriously, and the document is a work in progress
So, yes, everyone wants to move on in some sense.
The debate is, as a matter of public policy, when should NPIs end?
Republicans say “now.”
Democrats are at risk of drifting toward “whenever we lose power and Republicans take over.”
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes
As others have noted, saying a lot of people are still dying from COVID (awful) or that the pandemic isn't over (true) is not a policy, nor is it obvious what policy it necessitates, especially given restrictions are most likely to be enacted in places where they're least needed.
The debate over Covid NPIs is mystifying to me at this point. I was a huge supporter of NPIs in 2020. I made a website about them. And yet now it's clear that NPIs just cannot contain Omicron. And we have effective vaccines. So what is the debate about, exactly?
I think everyone knows where I stand on this, but for the sake of steel-manning I think everyone impatient with how hard it is to build things in the contemporary United States should consider Holden Karnofsky’s points.
Quick thread by @thechrisperry on the design of search / object recognition in Google Photos 👇🏻
Chris Perry @thechrisperry