> He knowingly sent people with covid into nursing homes against the will of the people running them...
Don't mean to be aggressive but where else would you like for the people whose domicile is in the nursing home to go? These are not people in independent living facilities, they likely need 24/7 skilled care.
Allowing the people to go back to the nursing home (aka their home) seemed like the right thing to do at the time. It unfortunately didn't play out so well and I am glad I wasn't the one making that decision.
I think it was a tough decision. The nursing homes could have contained the spread but clearly were incapable of doing so.
> Then stonewalled the Feds asking for information about those deaths.
No excuse for that, just lay it all out. The stonewalling was intentional and possibly illegal, he should answer for that.
There was a hospital ship he could have used, it only had 179 patients over 3 weeks. There were hospitals made that never reached full capacity. Hell, setup a tent. You're saying the only option was to infect and kill 15,000 people?
Hospitals did in fact need the beds (nursing home beds >>> hospital beds). Additionally they are ill-equipped for the skilled help these people needed. People suffer from dementia/alzheimers and hospitals only option is to handcuff people to their beds (which is inhumane long-term).
I don't want to play politics and I do think more could have been done here). Like: quickly granting nursing homes aid in terms of PPE + cash + national guard help. I'm just trying to change your mind that the situation was much more nuanced that the NYTimes is advocating for.
The hospital ships weren't for covid patients, but for others who couldn't get a bed due to the hospitals being over capacity. The military specifically was testing everyone coming to make sure they didn't have covid because it can spread way faster in the confines of a ship.
That was true initially, but they changed tack about a week later. The ship reduced capacity from 1000 beds to 500 specifically so that they could accomodate covid patients, because there weren't enough other patients to matter. In addition, the Javits center field hospital never reached more than about 5% of its available capacity. Meanwhile the nursing home down the street from me was begging the city to let them send their covid positive residents to to the ship, or to the javits, were told that those were only for hospital overflow, and they should keep the residents in place. more than 60 of them died, the highest death toll of any nursing home in the state.
The point is those ships were under capacity the whole time.
Send more non-covid patients to them, keep elderly patients in the hospitals. New York never reached full capacity overall.
If you MUST send covid patients to nursing homes, make sure they are prepared with PPE.
Other states did so, Cuomo and the 5 other governors should have known to do so. We already had outbreaks in a nursing home that everyone was aware of.
I believe inside the special operations community, Navy Seals, especially Team 6, gets a lot of flak for the amount of insider content that comes out [1]. Perhaps some of the lessons may apply to the tech community as well.
I found this quote resonating well even for myself and tech, specifically for the adoration of tech leaders: "It’s easy to fall in love with oneself, but this is not about us...It cannot be about us". [2]
I know a certain unit that loved to remind people "You will give more than you receive". I found that quote quite helpful in helping myself decide if a certain company / team is worth my efforts. I do believe that under most circumstances we will give more than we received (monetarily or otherwise). Is that cause worth it?
> I believe inside the special operations community, Navy Seals, especially Team 6, gets a lot of flak for the amount of insider content that comes out
This may be true, but it also reminds me of the long and lucrative relationship between the US military and Hollywood[0]. It's pretty well established at this point that the military is willing to pay for opportunities to look good in movies, like they did in the Transformers series. There's an incredible amount of money behind the scenes influencing military presence in our media, and a lot of people don't realize it.
It seems like entertainment overtly produced by the military is mostly outside of the scope of this particular phenomenon, which is more about the military influencing the content of entertainment-in-general.
I've was told by a friend that Seal Team 6 is kind of just a facade that the govt. puts on any spec ops operation that is successful that they need to publicize. Not that Seal Team 6 isn't full of spec ops guys, but rather that for confidentiality reasons, even if it isn't Seal Team 6 the govt. will say Seal Team 6 for obfuscation.
The SEALs have, in general, earned a negative reputation in the past few years. Mostly centered around the leaks (mentioned by others) as well as their reputation as cowboys who don't do a lot of fallback planning and due diligence.
"... and then installed Instagram." Instagram usage in the US has been increasing faster than people have been abandoning FB[1].
I may be a cynic, but whats the biggest consequence of people moving from FB to Insta? Probably not having to pay all of the tech debt FB incurred during its meteoric rise.
Both the EU and US groups have called for breaking Facebook up. More specifically, they want WhatsApp and Instagram to be separated from Facebook.
Facebook should have never been allowed to buy Instagram, just like Google should have never been allowed to buy AdMob and perhaps Deepmind and a few other companies.
It hurts competition and the economy (in the long term) when large players can just buy out anyone that presents a threat to them, and then either integrate them into their main service or shut them down. Facebook has been trying lately to get Instagram people to post more om Facebook for instance. Facebook also attempted to buy Snapchat at one point.
If the rules to stop such mergers don't yet exist, then maybe someone should invent them. Much more often than not the consequences of these mergers and consolidations, as well as various crimes the big companies commit, are dealt with when it's way too late, and the companies have profited much more than what the punishment takes away a decade later.
Oligopolies are also how we get business driving fundamental R&D. The tradeoff isn't as clear cut as Econ 201 makes it, because in additional to the above point you also have a difference between oligopolies and monopolistic competition.
I don't see what part of your link supports your statement. Losing 44% of 18-29s is massive, and I can't accept your assertion without data to support it.
I do wonder sometimes if it's a gift or a curse to know that your eventual death is coming soon. Death is such a weird concept that at least I personally feel I lack the hardware to fully comprehend or be at peace with (as of right now anyway).
I'm not afraid of death, although I hope mine is delayed a long time for the sake of my family. I am, however, afraid of dying, which is often a long and painful process.
Fair point. Everybody hopes they can go swiftly into the good night.
Isn't the fearsome part of dying just the pain and sickness though? Those things can exist as a chronic state that doesn't lead to death, so I'm not sure it's dying that one should be afraid of...
In some countries like Belgium, unbearable pain that doesn't lead to death is sufficient cause for an individual to be granted assisted suicide performed by medical professionals.
That's a good point, the two don't have to be linked. I always think of them together, I imagine because so I've seen so many people die slowly, and relatively few end up with horrible chronic afflictions that still let them survive for a long time.
Every morning you wake up a different person, and yesterday's person is gone. The you of tomorrow is like the babies born tomorrow, and if you are not here tomorrow, it is like the absence of a baby birth.
You can commute to NYC. It's a 1 hour ride on the Metro-North. It's not ideal but when times are hard you survive by any means necessary. It's also quite enjoyable. I get so much reading and personal time commuting on the train.
People do commute to NYC; but it sucks from Poughkeepsie. The train is not 1 hour, it is 1 hour 45 minutes. You need to drive to the station and park, figure at least 15 minutes. That also assumes you're going to be working very close to 42nd street. Otherwise add another 20 minutes for the subway/walking.
You're lucky if this is going to be less than 2.5 hours each way.
I live 38 miles north of the city; Poughkeepsie is 73.5. It takes me about an hour and 45 minutes door-to-door to get to work at 22nd street. 10-15 minutes to the train station, probably about 5 minutes of waiting [because if you miss one train, you have to wait 20-30 minutes or so for another depending on the time of morning], 60 minutes on the train, then about another 25 minutes of walking (or alternatively 5 minutes to get to the subway, 2-5 minutes to wait for it, then 5 minutes on the subway, and another 5 minutes of walking).
some time ago I read a study (sorry no links around) that people get used to almost anything, positive or negative, over time. With 2 clear exceptions:
- pets like dogs/cats always tend to raise happiness levels
- daily long commutes to work tend to make people more unhappy (and of course it helps if you have the time for yourself and are nto constantly stuck at traffic jam)
It's about an hour and 45 minutes to Grand Central, not an hour. I live near there and have taken both the Metro North and the Amtrak (from Rhinecliff) many times.
At least the trains have internet (or at least Amtrak does). If you can spin "they have wifi so they'll be part of my work day" into your job and work a virtually eight hour day including the commute as part of your time, that could be doable. If you have to commute on top of a normal eight hours, that's a non-starter.
Only if the value of you sharing that information at that moment exceeds the value of that information by itself.
Steve Jobs/Andy Rubin were preaching that mobile was the future for longer than I can remember but only after they had something to sell everyone else.
You can only see non-app store statistics like session information and retention if the users opt into developer statistics. They don't break down how many opted in vs opted out. However you can finally see app store page views vs. downloads. Also you can create campaign specific links which this will track the performance of.
If you're involuntarily collecting information then Mixpanel or GA are not going anywhere.
> If you're involuntarily collecting information then Mixpanel or GA are not going anywhere.
Also, this is iOS only from what I've seen and many apps/games will want to collect visitor data/metrics for multiple platforms (Android, web, desktop) in 1 place.
Don't mean to be aggressive but where else would you like for the people whose domicile is in the nursing home to go? These are not people in independent living facilities, they likely need 24/7 skilled care. Allowing the people to go back to the nursing home (aka their home) seemed like the right thing to do at the time. It unfortunately didn't play out so well and I am glad I wasn't the one making that decision.
I think it was a tough decision. The nursing homes could have contained the spread but clearly were incapable of doing so.
> Then stonewalled the Feds asking for information about those deaths.
No excuse for that, just lay it all out. The stonewalling was intentional and possibly illegal, he should answer for that.