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Ya'll are slipping! You didn't see the report that GA was fudging the numbers by putting dates in the wrong order so they could show a declining graph to support reopening????
I'm not saying reopening is a bad decision, but you don't want MS government putting data together like GA. Feel free to read the Atlanta Journal article linked below.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ajc...1NVGO/amp.html
Use AJC's tracking info then... hospitalization, daily cases, and deaths all showing downward trend.
https://www.ajc.com/news/coronavirus...BSVSNQDDAuZxH/
Down from peak for certain, but they actually look to have plateaued to me. That isn't a bad thing necessarily and jives with the goal of not stressing the medical system.
I'm going to be real interested to see what happens a couple of weeks from this weekend honestly. The tourists have invaded here the past two weeks building toward Memorial Day weekend. The coast has been a relative cool spot compared to Albany, Atlanta, and Athens (we've had 79 cases and 1 death in a population of 85,000 in Glynn County) - but the ATL is our main tourist base. With it opened up and us getting an influx of outsiders, will we see a spike locally? If we don't, I'll feel much better about this getting back to normal sooner rather than later.
I'm not saying cases aren't down, as quite honestly I don't really care at this point. What I was saying was that the state government justified reopening when it did (since it was the first one) by using "fabricated" data points. The governor doesn't come out and apologize if the numbers at the time would have backed his decision.
On a separate (but similar note), FL just fired the person responsible for calculating and publishing their numbers. She says it's because she wouldn't manipulate the data; they say it was for insubordination.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.mia...242851256.html
The fact remains, this epidemic is very political. I'm more worried about accurate data than anything else. If that is being censored in any way, then we have bigger worries than just the virus.
This is a pretty interesting read on how Florida did a good job managing coronavirus and avoided the more disastrous policies pursued by places like New York, where they forced nursing homes to take back residents with Wuhan. https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/...d-19-strategy/
It's also another data point on how there are real, negative consequences to having a shitty media with major outlets dominated by partisanship. Had we had a media interested in things other than partisan narratives, it might have occurred to them to ask why Florida was taking a different approach, rather than just jumping to the orange man bad narrative. They might would have spread information that would have helped other states avoid the disastrous policies that Cuomo put in place. I recognize that kind of critical thinking is beyond the capabilities of most journalists, but there are exceptions but those exceptions do no good when they can't get any oxygen b/c it's all sucked up by the rest.
Nobody is going to get anywhere suing him. He's going to be immune. And supposedly New York put in immunity for nursing homes in one of their state stimulus bills. So they knew pretty early own that they 17ed up enough that they wanted to foreclose suits that would result in nursing homes pointing out their 17up.
The best families can hope for as far as holding him accountable is that his reputation will be trashed and his political career brought to an end. I'd say that's pretty unlikely to happen though.
That lines up with this data (taken with a large grain of salt like all polling data). What drives infection is individual behavior, not state policies. Georgia's infection rates didn't start dropping in the data until a month after people started social distancing. No reason to think an increase will show up in the data earlier than that after a plummet in social distancing. Now that those stay at home rates are likely plummeting, infection rates will surely follow in a couple weeks to a month.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...e-of-covid-19/
Mississippi hospital numbers had been doing well over the weekend, they are up so far this week, some of them fairly substantially.
Things keep changing.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/cdc-n...nated-surfaces
In general, most people are not scared to go to their doctors appointments or seek emergency care like they were 1 month ago.