Sunday, December 4, 2022

Here we go again. More pearl-clutching about Covid numbers (Santa Clara County California edition)


New cases up 8% during the past 14 days.
 
Covid info:  New York Times (arrows and box added)
Headline:  San Jose Mercury News
Cases in the nine-county Bay Area have jumped from an average of 8 daily cases per 100,000 residents in late October to over 13 at the end of November, an 80% increase. Every Bay Area county is in at least the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s second-highest substantial transmission level, and Santa Clara and Solano counties already are at the high level.

High level?  So what the hell were the periods from November 2020 to January 2021 and December 2021 to February 2022.

Big picture perspective, please.
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Greetings from St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, where Donald Trump, Alabama segregationist George Wallace, and Barry Goldwater were presidential favorties

 
Election results:  Wikipedia
Headline:  NOLA.com




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2024 primary and caucus dilemma: It's not just about what white voters want

 
Source:  U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

Weirdest, most off-the-wall headline about the topic:  Vox,  12/2/2022

Look at the photo that accompanies the headline.  What do you see?  Old white people sitting around a Iowa living room.

Excerpt:  The calendar was proposed by President Joe Biden earlier this week and greatly diminishes, if not ends, the longstanding places of Iowa and New Hampshire in Democratic nominating contests. Both were states where Biden did poorly in 2020. In a letter proposing the change in the calendar, though, Biden emphasized the need to ensure voters of color had a bigger role in the nominating process. [emphasis added]
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