Still flat in Calif., same for months.
The Bay Area was flat, but it just spiked yesterday and reopening is now paused.
The press is saying one thing, but the official stats say flat - month after month.
I guess newspapers value outrage over public service.
You would need a magnifying glass to see anything significant. Only 72 hospitalized patients today (2,278 more available), historical average is a little less.
https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx
Shame on HN for letting non-technical people dictate public policy with a false narrative. If anybody told me that a technical group the size of HN in 2019 was this oblivious, I would have been skeptical. But here we are - the center of SV refuses to actually read a graph, month after month.
Can somebody explain that to me? Is everybody else incapacitated with fear, virtue signalling, mass hysteria, or what is behind that?
Dr. VDH, who noticed the above in parallel with me, said something like, "[We're captive to 1%'ers who have a nice life and feel it's unfair they could lose that.]"
Is that it? Destroy our economy for individual selfishness?
Do I need to make a video on how to read the graphs?
Yes, I too am a mental mess and use reasoning and convenient choice of evidence to justify decisions and opinions I already formed.
Wrong how? Or do you mean, "not-SJW enough for my taste"?
If what I said is incorrect, why don't you provide some actual data?
https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en/test
Go to the chart for California. Percent positive tests and hospitalizations are the most important factors here. Hospitalizations have gone up, undoubtedly (from 4,500 to now almost 6,000). That said, percent positive tests has remained flat. Deaths in CA also continue to trend down.
What conclusion do you draw from that? To me, it appears that the concentration of Covid in the population of California has not increased. At the same time, there are more hospitalizations. Perhaps Covid is not getting worse in CA, but more people are finding out that they have it due to increased testing and are then going to the hospital out of an abundance of caution.
As an aside, you and the guy you're replying to are obviously extremely emotional about this. Learn to recognize that and realize that if you're feeling emotional when looking at data, some part of your brain cares way too much to remain objective. Both of you are clearly biased.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-25/newsom-c...