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It will be easy for them to do, also. Just as we hear liberals crying that "cases are going up!" (as we increase the number of people being tested), and they have to do is reduce the number of people being tested, and they will proclaim "thanks to Biden's leadership, the cases are going down and the country is saved!"
If the evil liberals were to purposefully do less tests then the number of cases would go down................
Cases go up as we increase testing. Your percentage increases are meaningless without considering how many more people are being tested.
Exactly hospitalizations, patients in critical and deaths are more meaningful numbers. Although these number lag behind changes.
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"Trump’s claim is also contradicted by data used by the White House’s own pandemic taskforce to track new and emerging hotspots.
In a 7 May report, obtained by NBC News, the list of top 10 surge areas included Nashville, Tennessee; Des Moines, Iowa; Amarillo, Texas; Racine, Wisconsin; Garden City, Kansas, and Central City, Kentucky – a predominantly white town of 6,000 people which saw a 650% week-on-week increase.
Muhlenberg county, where Central City is located, has voted Republican in every presidential election since 2004, with Trump winning 72% of votes in 2016 – the biggest ever victory for the party."
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However, numbers from the Muhlenberg County Health Department reveal most of those cases are coming from one location - the Green River Correctional Complex.
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The geographical spread of new hotspots suggest that the virus is advancing quickly outside major coastal towns and cities such as New York, Newark and Seattle where infection rates are now plateauing or dipping.
You can manipulate statistics to prove just about anything.
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NY, even now, calls 58 the mid-afternoon shift. 161 has been the NY average the last 5 days through Saturday 5-16.
If they had 58 before and now they have 1800, then Texas might be on a path of becoming a warning example. In the other hand, we might be at a point where we will just have to rough it out. Down here in DE Florida, the beaches are still closed, and business reopening is only partial, but people are trying to get back to normal.
Texas reported 1,801 new COVID-19 infections on Saturday — the highest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases in the state so far.
More than 700 of the new cases came from the Amarillo area, a city along the Texas panhandle.
Gov. Greg Abbott said he expected the number of positive cases to continue to rise as the state plans to increase the amount of testing in "most high-risk areas: nursing homes, meatpacking plants, and jails."
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Every day the evening new opens up with bated breath to report that the states that have opened up are going back. They are so invested in closing the country they can't even pretend they are not.
I watch the news, and they are not saying that. What channels do you watch?
Trump probably hopes the numbers spike so he can extend the campaigning benefits the C19 has given him.
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It is tapering off globally. Some places have stayed closed because they still had lots of new infections, but practically all States are in some phase of reopening, even Florida.
Not true. If you look at world o meters the average world daily new cases have remained between 75K and 100K since early April. Many areas are tapering off but places like Mexico, India, Russia, South America and the middle east are rising quickly. So it is a wash regarding overall new cases.
There has been a spike in CV-19 cases and deaths here in Texas since “reopening”. Expected.
There is an old saying: "There are three kinds of lies- lies, damned lies, and statistics"
You need to dig deeper into the data to get a true picture of what is going on. Don't only relay on sensational headlines written by "journalists" who frankly don't know what the hell they are talking about half the time. According to Google coronavirus stats, Texas had 1,801 reported new cases on May 16, and 785 new cases on May 17. You could just as easily see a headline that said "New Covid-19 cases in Texas Have Plumeted in the 2 Weeks Since the State Reopened". Yet that headline would be just as misleading as the sensationalized headlines trying to scare people into thinking the virus has been spiking. One of the key statistics that put things into perspective is: The number of new cases as a percent of new tests. That gives the real picture. I have had a hard time trying to discover how many tests a day each state is conducting, but no matter the number, the more you test, the more likely you will find new cases.
As a moderate, I have a hard time understanding why so many liberals love to pile on Texas and scold them for the number of covid-19 cases and deaths, and try to link that to the fact that Texas has started coming out of lockdown. Colorado also started coming out of lockdown the same time as Texas, so let's compare the two states: www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us
Texas:
Cases per million- 1,679
Deaths per million- 47
Colorado:
Cases per million- 3,810
Deaths per million- 211
Funny, but I have a hard time finding any comments anywhere criticizing Colorado. What could possibly be the difference? Oh, that's right, they have a Democratic governor, who did the same thing the Republican governor did in Texas. Obviously, the Texas governor is an idiot and the Colorado governor is brilliant! I really hate how this whole thing has become politicized. I have just as little patience with the right wingers who have claimed this is all a hoax, or called it the "Kung Flu", or marched on the Michigan capitol with their guns.
no spike in the coronavirus and the stock market goes up 900+ points...
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If the evil liberals were to purposefully do less tests then the number of cases would go down................ 
