Favorites December 28th 2021

Daniel Moser @_dmoser

90 minute public transit 🚌🚇🚉commuter zone for London 🇬🇧 Vs. San Francisco 🇺🇸 👇👇

Public transit gets things done.

Ben Rosen @ben_rosen

NILES: and he offered me a red pill or a blue pill FRASIER: which did you take? NILES: i was having steak for dinner so i went with the red

I still haven't seen any Frasier, but per my current understanding of the show, this tracks.

Scott Barlow @SBarlow_ROB

NBF: "Canada now has the fastest growing population in the G7"

I think I was saying the other day that Maximum Canada is currently winning vs One Billion Americans.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Seems like it would be awfully nice to have nasal vaccines that would prevent even mild/assymptomatic infection and therefore block transmission — amazing to me that there’s no big funding stream for this.

Plus, no needles, more people willing to take it.

Ezra Klein @ezraklein

The implied population-level infection numbers here are just wild. Avoiding this thing will be very, very hard, in a way I’m not sure our public conversation has caught up to. Strong case for being very, very cautious if you have immunocompromised people in your life.

Bob Wachter @Bob_Wachter

Today's update on SF/@UCSF numbers. Bottom line –huge increase in cases & test positivity. Hospitalizations still pretty benign (though early signs of an uptick). Most remarkable stat is our asymptomatic test positivity rate (ATPR) @UCSFHospitals – now ~7%, or ~1-in-14.(1/16) https://t.co/tvLWNrHqFA

Presumably this also means that the spike will be relatively short, but I guess we'll see.

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

Harry Reid facts vox.com/2015/3/27/8299…

Harry Reid, former Senate Majority Leader died today, many people had interesting things to say about his life, but I enjoyed these. Also John Madden died.

Shah Selbe @shahselbe

Major milestone for the camera industry. The start of the death of DSLRs.

Canon Rumors @canonrumorsguy

Canon exec confirms that the EOS-1D X Mark III is Canon's last DSLR https://t.co/GI3ybAbdxL https://t.co/7Knr63ekQu

If you haven't been following along, the transition away from using mirrors has been slow, but it's clearly where everything is going.

September 2021