#seattle voters should be receiving their ballots for the Feb 11 election this week. One of the most important items on the ballot is Seattle Prop 1A to tax wealthy businesses to fund social housing. Don't get fooled by Prop 1B which would rob affordable housing funds and was put forth by Seattle's conservative city council to avoid taxing the wealthy. Vote 1A! https://www.letsbuildsocialhousing.org/
If anyone has information on the location of ICE raids currently being conducted in downtown #Seattle, please reach out to me via Signal at EVHaste.39, so that I can follow them around and be a big pain in the ass.
Heads up Seattle: ICE are around 3rd and University trying to gain access to restaurant kitchens. If you're going to a restaurant today, maybe give the managers a heads up that this is happening, and the number for the Washington Immigration Solidarity Network at 1-844-724-3737 in case they show up.
*Edit* someone in the thread says they've also been spotted around the Northgate area.
First off, you may have read about the Trump administration āpausingā all communications from the U.S. federal health agencies. Which is, you know, pathetic bullshit. Anyway, just a reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not from the federal health agencies. It is not āpaused.ā
Let's start with the West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant, which was nuts last week. How wild? The 1/12 reading was far and away the highest thatās been recorded since last winter. Itās reassuring that it subsequently came down quickly on 1/14, but itās still quite high when you look at the entire time series.
WSPT is one of three King County(-ish) sewersheds in this dataset. You can find overviews, individual sewershed results, and a breakdown of variants for ā¦
First off, you may have read about the Trump administration āpausingā all communications from the U.S. federal health agencies. Which is, you know, pathetic bullshit. Anyway, just a reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not from the federal health agencies. It is not āpaused.ā
Let's start with the West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant, which was nuts last week. How wild? The 1/12 reading was far and away the highest thatās been recorded since last winter. Itās reassuring that it subsequently came down quickly on 1/14, but itās still quite high when you look at the entire time series.
WSPT is one of three King County(-ish) sewersheds in this dataset. You can find overviews, individual sewershed results, and a breakdown of variants for the state wastewater surveillance program, along with other metrics like case counts and hospitalizations for Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses, at https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/diseases-and-chronic-conditions/communicable-disease-surveillance-data/respiratory-illness-data-dashboard#WasteWater. If you go to the page and click "learn more" in the statewide view tab, you can find out lots of details about how these data are calculated and how to interpret them. The dashboard gets updated every Wednesday (generally).
Note: when the state switched over to new data providers in September, they also removed the previous historical data from the graphical interface. That's because the two providers used different methodologies that made direct comparisons difficult. Unfortunately, it also removed valuable context for interpreting the results. So, keep in mind we're just seeing what happened in September 2023 until now.
If you're in the #Seattle area and you want a Dimplex electric baseboard heater. I'm giving one away. It's 240V. It includes its own wall-mount wireless thermostat. It will need some wires reconnected inside, which took me ~20 min working with the instructions online. It capably heated a 300 sq ft room for a few months. Then we realized we didn't need it and it was just in the way of my bike. #BuyNothing
