"But it spiked from 8,934 to 12,413 in the last week!"
Every single Wed. since the beginning of this graph there is a huge drop, followed by tiny increases over the following 6 days. This obviously has something to do with reporting. Today it will drop below the trough again.
"Ok, but they're talking about NEW cases. They're up! 39% like they said!"
They're not. Let's look at those.
Using 7-day rolling averages, a precipitous drop from 3,756 on 1/12 to 529 on 2/20.
"Then up to 901 a week later 2/26! 39%!"
It has dropped the last 3 days to 837.
So in other words, total *NEW* cases recently dropped to around where they were at their lowest point over the summer, ticked up a tiny bit over the previous week, and have already started dropping again this week.
The straight line is still trending down for the past 7 weeks.
So what happened in that tiny bump they were dwelling on?
The count from the week BEFORE THAT, during a polar vortex, dropped at a higher rate than the recent trend. People weren't going out in extreme weather to get tested. When it was over, they did, and the numbers caught up.
Add those people who held off a week to get tested, to the people who would have this week anyway, and you have your tiny increase, insignificant to the overall still very downward trend.
This is how the news deceives to contort the data to fit the narrative they prefer to push.
And as you would expect, this effect is even more pronounced in Texas. HUGE drop from 12,774 on 2/11 to 3,201 on 2/18. Then a tiny rise to make up for the dip and continue straight trend down. worldometers.info/coronavirus/us…
And total active cases never even saw the slightest of bumps.
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This article is so fully insane, and the most insane part to me is that they had the audacity to put print "the quiet part out loud" in Time Magazine. time.com/5936036/secret…
Like maybe the reason you think we were on the brink of fascism to begin with is because…of the aforementioned "well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions"?
Like what is wrong with your brain when you read that "a well funded cabal" deliberately and directly influenced the election so the unwashed rubes wouldn't make the wrong democratic choice and not have an ounce of self-reflection on how that might be bad.
Karen reporting live for NBC that in Florida, people are…brace yourself are you sitting down?…living their lives like normal human beings and not retreating to the pants shitting fear that they “should” be according to them.
But yeah, on the one side there are facts, data and science, and on the other side there is NBC's shrieking Karen yelling about how the healthy people who assessed their own personal risk are literally killing grandma, despite hard evidence to the contrary.