yeah, most of the folks I know who used it got their shots at the Coliseum
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 April 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
generally i get the impression shots have been harder to come by in the bay area, especially in SV. my work colleagues up there are still taking random half days this week, and i don't know anyone down here who hasn't got it yet. presumably this is because there are fewer hesitant/hourly waged people in a hyper wealthy part of the world like palo alto.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 22 April 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
The Bay Area is quite large and sprawling and there are plenty of hesitant/hourly-waged people and a lot of unemployed people? I mean, one could make a similarly semi-sensible generalization involving health-conscious affluent people in places like Santa Monica and the fucking Palisades ... idk dude
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 April 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
nah I think he's right about the lower hesitancy
https://abc7news.com/covid-vaccine-appointment-california-ca/10517371/
New data shows San Francisco has the lowest vaccine hesitancy in California. Only 7% of people in San Francisco said they're hesitant about getting the COVID-19 vaccine ...
The entire Bay Area ranks very low in vaccine hesitancy. Solano County has the most residents who are hesitant, according to the CDC, and they're still only at 11% hesitancy.
― lukas, Thursday, 22 April 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link
Yeah I know the east bay exists. Iβm making a generalisation that is true on average.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 22 April 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
lol it isn't even just the East Bay ... you continue to make these generalizations and it's like ... can you just stop?
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 April 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/covid-19-vaccines-distribution/Map donβt lie. Iβm speculating about the reason but the fact is more people are getting vaccinated (and appointments seem correspondingly harder to come by) in the Bay Area than in Southern California.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 22 April 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
I guess, looking at the map there is more "dark green" in the Bay Area than in SoCal ... still, San Benito County and Monterey County are about where I thought they would be, as in, not at the top of the charts, as it were. I consider both of these part of the Bay Area. A lot of it does seem to correlate to population density, as opposed to region.
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 April 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
yes, if you look at the map there is more "dark green" in the bay area.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 22 April 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
all I'm saying is that the aggregation of data by county doesn't reflect the internal differences in those counties. ... For example, Santa Clara County is not just Silicon Valley, and it would be interesting to see a more detailed map. I don't doubt that affluence and education level play roles here, but I think population density and relative reliance on mass transit are factors as well.
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 April 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
SF hit 66%/two-thirds with at least one shot yesterday so whatever's going on, I'll take it.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 April 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
right, but if the thing you're trying to explain is a regional observation (which is how this started) then it's not "generalizing" or bad faith or whatever to look at attributes of region X and region Y at the regional level, and literally ignore the internal differences.
it is true that the rate of vaccination in the bay area is very high, possibly the highest in the united states except a couple of tribal nations. certainly the highest in the state. seems like hesitancy is also very low based on that survey.
it is *also* true that the level of education and median income are high in the bay area relative to the rest of the state.
i think these two might be connected. that doesn't mean i think everyone in the bay area owns two teslas and has a seven figure stock grant and a graduate degree. (but i do think that kind of person, who are more common in the bay area than elsewhere, are part of the reason the regional vaccination numbers are so high).
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 22 April 2021 20:27 (two years ago) link
fair enough.
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 April 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
i would also like to see a bay area map. i've seen the vaccination map for la and it's not pretty. it correlates with fraction of white people and income (and even worse it anticorrelates perfectly with covid infection rates).
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 22 April 2021 20:29 (two years ago) link
it correlates with fraction of white people and income (and even worse it anticorrelates perfectly with covid infection rates).
i would guess that ours is not dissimilar
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 April 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
this is from february and i can't find the more recent version, but i doubt the colors have changed much
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-covid-vaccine-racial-disparities-by-neighborhood-map/
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 22 April 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
in funnier news, these people are awful, they'd be on the quiddities thread if they were in new york and i ... agree with them 100%.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-Exit-Interview-Housemates-in-Oakland-16107718.php
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 22 April 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
honestly, I am trying to visualize where this "duplex in downtown Oakland" could possibly be ... like, there aren't really those types of buildings there. ... maybe a few? ... Maybe this is a classic example of NoBe-ism. (akm to thread)
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 April 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
It's actually an odd detail, tbh, considering they seem to be advocates for higher density housing ... yet apparently they live in part of a duplex in a neighborhood that is predominantly city services and commercial, and the majority of the housing is high-density multi-story apartment buildings ? ... though, my guess is that their neighborhood got edited to "downtown Oakland" as a result of SF-centeredness that was like, "does this neighborhood have a name? will readers be familiar with it? Let's just say 'downtown Oakland' it is kinda close ..."
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 April 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
maybe I could look them up on Nextdoor hahah
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 April 2021 20:54 (two years ago) link
Ahh the irony. Tons of vaccine hesitancy in Marin County, when it comes to their precious gifted children (measles, rubella, polio, etc)..
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 22 April 2021 22:31 (two years ago) link
I got my vaccination at Moscone Center through the myturn website, as did a few of my friends
― Dan S, Friday, 23 April 2021 01:30 (two years ago) link
So did I. Moscone has had such positive (and well deserved in my experience) press as being well run, I feel very fortunate.
Myturn is clearly buggy (and also a significant fraction of the population struggles to reach it or any website) but apparently not useless.
― fajita seas, Friday, 23 April 2021 02:31 (two years ago) link
Here we go...
Caitlyn Jenner announces bid for California governorhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56864649
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 23 April 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
Do they even do the Olympic Decathlon anymore? Seems like nobody cares anymore about the all-around decent athlete, everything is so specialized now
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 23 April 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
I'm a little jealous of Moscone people, I took the first appointment I could get in Oakland.
― Tahini Coates (Leee), Friday, 23 April 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
One fun thing you can do is look up random homes in Palo Alto and then look up literal castles in France you can buy for less money. Top is $2.25 million, bottom is $2.2. pic.twitter.com/g1798Z2s2I— Quantian (@quantian1) April 29, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Saturday, 1 May 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link
Yeah but the upkeep on the castle has gotta be killer
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Saturday, 1 May 2021 20:27 (two years ago) link
The Palo Alto house needs a new dishwasher, so it balances out.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 1 May 2021 21:43 (two years ago) link
This appears to be a deliberate campaign strategy, and not an act of vandalism, fwiw. pic.twitter.com/n1MHOjwzRO— Rob Pyers (@rpyers) May 3, 2021
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 3 May 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
βThe coverage yesterday was all about the bear,β bemoans @BeastJohnCox, who brought the bear. Says focus should be on issues making California βunlivable and dangerous.β— Guy Marzorati (@GuyMarzorati) May 5, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
Cox is in the Bay Area today, but sent the bear home... it was stealing all his thunder.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
my homie is running for gov lol
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
It's gonna be a clown car of candidates, and if voters go with the recall, whomever gets a the most votes becomes governor (as opposed to a majority). The whole thing is set up really badly.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link
Hugely important and sobering storyCurrent and former public health officials say Newsom has entrusted the essential work of government to private-sector health and tech allies, hurting the ability of the state and local health departments to respond to the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/sPUIdsky6A— Miriam Pawel (@miriampawel) May 6, 2021
relative to the alternatives he's good, but he's a really bad governor!
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 6 May 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
don't elect shitty mayors to be governor, they'll just be shitty mayor governors
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 6 May 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
caek u a citizen yet
no, one the fence tbqfh and there's no rush
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 6 May 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
*on
but think of all the delicious voting you could be doing
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 6 May 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
(also would need a few nights with more than four hours sleep uninterrupted by my terrible children to pass the citizenship test, which i'm not getting any time soon)
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 6 May 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
this seems correct (both about her aim, which is not to win but to grift, and the possibility that "trump voters and no one else" ends up being enough to be the winner of the plurality in a clown car field with no democrats)
I donβt think itβs this clever. Itβs not really a campaign to become governor, itβs a campaign to become a conservative political celebrity. https://t.co/YP4x3WK3up— Josh Barro (@jbarro) May 6, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 6 May 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
β Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, May 6, 2021 10:43 AM (yesterday)
Jerry Brown was a less shitty governor than he was mayor, but then he'd already been governor before he'd been mayor? Idk, I feel like being Governor during Covid is a structurally no-win situation. Kinda like being mayor of Oakland.
― sarahell, Friday, 7 May 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
Story of the day, really.
https://theintercept.com/2021/05/07/california-fires-chico-housing-real-estate/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 May 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
The nation's most populous state lost more than 180,000 people between January 2020 and January 2021, a decline of 0.46 percent... this was the first time California experienced an actual annual drop since the state began recording such data in 1900.
Opponents of Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is facing a recall election, are sure to use the historic decline as proof of California's woes.
They talk about this like it's a bad thing. We have forty million people and not enough water... .46% is a statistical blip, we need more people to leave
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 7 May 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
π€
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 7 May 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
i will escape one day
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 May 2021 04:38 (two years ago) link
wtf!?
Anyone following Newsom's plan to send $8b in stimulus payments to 2/3rds of Californians needs to understand he's essentially required to send money back to taxpayers due to a 1979 ballot measure mandating that real per person state government spending must be under 1979 levels https://t.co/WIfNAAiRg8— Liam Dillon (@dillonliam) May 10, 2021
the upside (downside) of having your state income tax base dominated by high net worth tech people who get paid in stocks is that when the stock market does really well (badly) you have a ton of (no) money. this year we have more. touch luck for cities that depend on sales tax, but congrats to the state i guess?
and what is this proposition 4?! i have never heard of this! and newsom is now claiming he is obliged to send $600 to every adult earning under $75k. haha!
Angered by local and state officialsβ efforts to replace the dollars lost to the 1978 tax cut he crafted with anti-tax crusader Howard Jarvis, Gann returned the following year with Proposition 4, a ballot measure to limit government spending.βLet government trim their sails and get rid of the fat,β Gann said in an Aug. 15, 1979, profile in The Times. βWeβre picking up where 13 left off!βVoters resoundingly agreed that November β in part, perhaps, because Gannβs ballot measure also required a tax rebate when revenues outpaced spending on taxpayer-funded programs. The provision has been triggered only once in the lawβs 42-year history, resulting in a $1.1-billion rebate in 1987.Until this month, that is.Newsom administration officials say a still-growing tax windfall has spilled over the so-called βGann limitβ on state spending. In January, the spillover was estimated at $102 million over a two-year period. This week, Newsom will announce the excess cash that canβt be spent under regular budget rules is an astounding $16 billion.
βLet government trim their sails and get rid of the fat,β Gann said in an Aug. 15, 1979, profile in The Times. βWeβre picking up where 13 left off!β
Voters resoundingly agreed that November β in part, perhaps, because Gannβs ballot measure also required a tax rebate when revenues outpaced spending on taxpayer-funded programs. The provision has been triggered only once in the lawβs 42-year history, resulting in a $1.1-billion rebate in 1987.
Until this month, that is.
Newsom administration officials say a still-growing tax windfall has spilled over the so-called βGann limitβ on state spending. In January, the spillover was estimated at $102 million over a two-year period. This week, Newsom will announce the excess cash that canβt be spent under regular budget rules is an astounding $16 billion.
using a jarvis measure to redistribute wealth to the bottom 2/3 in a recall year is extremely funny. fair play.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 05:36 (two years ago) link
congratulations to the people making money out of this i guess?
Caitlyn Jenner's been running for governor for a month and has done two (2) interviews and no public events - ie, stuff where she could meet voters and take more questions. @JeremyBWhite @cmarinucci's stuff is holding up, as usual https://t.co/4a17MnyBjV— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) May 20, 2021
. @Caitlyn_Jenner cancels on the Ruthless pod which @HolmesJosh likens to no-showing on Meet the Press for Rs βYou donβt unprofessionally let people know that you canβt make it unless you are a completely unorganized shitshow that is a scam-campaign from the very beginningβ pic.twitter.com/NEghqBmtEB— Dave Catanese (@davecatanese) May 20, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 20 May 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
These stats are so eyebrow-raising that I would assume they were a data error expect for extreme drought in this region. Sierra Nevada vegetation flammability now appears to be at *all-time* record levels...not just for calendar date, but for any time of year. #CAwx #CAfire https://t.co/GFotZImH1G— Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) June 5, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Saturday, 5 June 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link