The story so far: To address the pandemic, W.Va. adopted a Harvard Global color-coded risk assessment map, which calls for shutting down a lot of activities when spread of the virus gets to dangerous levels (orange), and going full stay-at-home when spread...
...reaches critical levels (red). However, instead of applying it to all societal activities as intended, the W.Va. version was "tweaked" so it only applies to public schools and nursing home visitation.
Further "tweaks" counted outbreaks among nursing home residents and correctional facility inmates as one person, and tracked small population counties on a more generous 14-day rolling average.
However, despite the tweaks, cases surged, pushing upwards of a dozen counties into orange or red levels.
Public reaction was not to step back, hunker down, and close high-risk settings until the risk subsided.
Public reaction was to demand that high school football games be allowed in high risk counties, and the administration, in its tradition of reacting to whoever was last to cry most loudly, set out to further weaken the Harvard Global matrix, to allow sports in high-risk counties
Based on today's briefing, orange will be broken up into high risk orange (virtual classes, no football, but bars, restaurants, churches stay open) and a sorta high risk new color (same as above, but, yea, football!)
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