The state of VA was listing new counts every day until a few weeks ago then the site changed. You can still find it, but don’t know why they took it off.
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Which makes me suspicious of the Texas Dashboard.
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and Americans blame China for “messing with” the data. Seems Republicans keep talking while looking in the mirror.
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This is what the Trump administration likes to call “magically going away”.
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And Texas.
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Florida to Georgia: hold my bleach.
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We have some miniature dictatorships in the works in the form of these red states. Debt to the truth? When’s the first payment due? I’d add on a hefty late fee. Vote!
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I’ve been using this page:
https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83
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DeSantis is DeFascist.
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No need to flatter…
For example, who really believes anything trump says without independent verification anymore?
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FlawDUH —> FRAUDUH
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People will die because decisions are being made without real data. The politicians are intentionally misleading the public and using false data to justify their political decisions. We all understand that there are real reasons to open the economy back up, but it must be done with full transparency and a public discussion of the risks involved to both health and the economy. The lack of real testing and plans to follow up on tracking individuals who have been exposed once they test positive are unfortunate, as this will lead to further spreading of the disease. We must use real data. Otherwise, additional people will die because we didn’t follow best practice and discuss best practice. How is the approach of intentionally misleading the public with falsehoods based on intentional distortions of facts different from manslaughter?
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Let me stop and think about this.
The story is that health departments are being told to manipulate data regarding infection and mortality rates to lure people back into dangerous behavior in order to make sure the economy recovers?
I must be missing something here.
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Whatever happened to all those sunshine laws Florida supposedly has on the books? I suspect this is happening all over the country where a Republican governor is in charge trying to pretend things are better than they are to avoid the responsibility of the virus spreading and reflecting on themselves.
We’re starting to see the shenanigans everywhere, especially in red state after red state where the GOP Governor and GOP legislature are in charge.
The sooner the electorate knows how these corrupt pols are manipulating the data and thereby putting their constituents at greater risk for infection and death, the sooner they’ll know how they’re being fooled like a bunch of chumps into thinking these pols have their best interests at heart. State residents should have this information available to them before they all cast their next vote, certainly as being part of a fully informed electorate, asked to pay taxes by whatever means to fund state government.
Maybe some of these red state assholes like being lied to (ignorance for many of them is bliss) but I would think even some of the most loyal Goopers won’t, especially when their own family and friends begin to die all around them from bogus information, which is being purposely altered and disseminated to buck up our lousy system of unfettered capitalism at the cost of all those precious lives.
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Recall the Henny Youngman gag: If you can’t afford the surgery, my doctor will touch up the x-ray.
In WW2, our govn’t had to conduct a massive effort to counter mis-information, rumor, conspiracies, etc. One thing we learned early: Always tell the truth. Once it’s learned that you’re not or you’re shading the truth, then you’ve got worse problems.
As the public learns that their fed and state govn’ts are lying about the virus, then all credibility is lost.
And let us not forgot what we learned from the Pentagon Papers.
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It’s a worrisome increase in recent days, but I would not (yet) describe it as “massive.” Texas has not been doing anywhere near enough testing to really get a fix on how prevalent the disease is. I think the most reliable indicator is reported deaths, and even that probably undercounts by 50% or so. To date, there have been about 1300 official deaths statewide. Here in Dallas County (pop. 2.7 million) reported daily deaths have been pretty consistently in the single digits for quite a few weeks now, with roughly a week-long stretch of low- to mid-teens that has since decreased. The majority of cases seem not to be in the big urban areas (Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio) but instead in the smaller cities and rural areas.
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The fix has been in for FL for the last few weeks. They went from twice daily reporting to once. They’ve obscured and messed up reporting on fatalities. They’ve taken their sites down at odd times. They’ve underreported or spread out the caseloads to make each day look smaller. They’re ‘increasing’ testing by conflating the data with re-tests of the same people (not all unique individuals) and then using that artificially juiced hit rate to justify ‘opening up’. I also strongly suspect that they are rationing testing to where it’s in the blue areas (they don’t care if blue case loads go up and they can depend on vigilant county gov’ts/mayors to help keep the numbers down through social distancing) and only available in red areas on a ‘needs’ basis. All of that is catching up to FL b/c their daily baseline has crept up over the past week as more people test positive. That’s probably a function of people demanding tests. We’re also learning that most of the people who’ve died in FL are old and white. That’s not a good thing for the GOP. I expect that now that most of the state is opening up that DeSantis will release more data and avoid the law suits and bad publicity.
In GA, on 4/23, the day that Kemp announced the end of their lockdown, there were 21,512 cases and 872 fatalities. Today, there are 38,624 cases and 1649 fatalities (that we know of). That’s an increase of 80% in cases and 89% in fatalities in a little over 3 weeks. That’s really all you need to know. All Kemp did was spread out the the numbers over a longer period of time, and in doing so he has now failed to contain the spread to the initial hot spots as the virus has gone MAGA wild. There are more cases in Red GA than Blue GA. Purple GA is eating it too. To compensate for that, Kemp has been throwing a lot of new cases into ‘unknown’ or ‘non-GA resident’. The purpose of this is may be to downplay the number of cases in red and purple counties (imho). GA is on the tipping point of going blue. They’re desperate so they’re gonna cheat.
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Speaking of opening up,
Rentier scum!
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I watched that interchange. All I can say about Mnuchin is that he’s one slimeball, totally partisan and corrupt as the rest of these tRumpanzees. It reminded me of the time Maxine Waters questioned him in the House in her committee and he was a total jackass to her and the committee. And again, he was totally non-responsive to the questions being asked of him when it came from a Dem. Just pure folly to have him speak at all. He’ll do what he wants to do even if it runs afoul of the rules, the law, or his limited understanding of the Constitution. He’s a thief using our money thru the Treasury to reward tRump’s donors. That’s all I’ve seen him do since he took on that job.
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