Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

California had a head start and denser cities.

Tennessee had it's highest single-day deaths total a week ago. California's was back in April.

Just because Tennessee isn't as bad as the largest state in the country—a state which has three of the top 10 biggest cities in the United States compared to Tennessee's one in the Top 25—doesn't mean current trends aren't also bad for that state.

 

We all know you are being disingenuous, but I'll play along anyway by asking, is death the only metric that matters to you?

If you want to judge by, you know, people actually getting sick, then NC has some work to do:

CA | 39,500,000 | 157,000 | 0.397%
NC | 10,490,000 | 48,188 | 0.459%

 

I think experts believe:

% of hospital capacity is big for the present
% of tests that are positive is the metric for the near future
Death toll (per 100K) is the ultimate arbiter, I suppose.

 

Tennessee's numbers are likely crap. Every state with at least 16,000 cases but one has more deaths than Tennessee (almost 33,000 cases). Minnesota with a similar amount of cases has almost three times the deaths. I mean, there is going to be varying numbers regardless and some places are going to be better than others, but how has Tennessee done so well? I guess by not listening to the media.

 

1.Death is BY FAR the most important metric. It's the ONLY reason we're taking all these steps that we don't take for less deadly (but just as contagious) viruses.
2. "Sickness" numbers are a curiosity, bit it only means "reported positives." That's an influence of testing. "Cases" do not equal "sickness" because we don't know how many had it and never fell ill.

 

Bad numbers: "See? We told you so!"
Good numbers: "They're crap!"

Heads I win. Tails you lose.
Every time.

 

I'm sure the 1,197 dead neighbors of yours there in NC are happy to hear you are just as concerned about their welfare as you were your hair length.

 

Haircuts! Get yer haircuts he-ya!


TDH reports record-high 1,188 new COVID-19 cases in Tennessee, statewide total up to 34,017

 

Good numbers with a coherent science-based plan: Hey not bad

Good numbers from a state that votes to say the media is lying to you about this: Show your work...

 

It's becoming more clear by the day that there is 100% percent tolerance among the decision makers for COVID infection rates of any sort...meaning, they most definitely WILL play because there is no authority who will stop them.