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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by strictnein on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:44PM (#23225742)
A lot of states are hitting daily records because they're ramping up testing. There isn't more sickness, there's more accurate numbers.

Basically by following absolute numbers, and commenting on them as if there's a failure on the state's part, you're punishing states for increasing testing.

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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by eggsnbacon1 on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:48PM (#23225788)
This can be disproven by looking at daily death rates. Many states are also peaking in daily deaths vs average. There's undoubtedly more testing, but its not the main contributor to the lack of suppression
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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by snovv_crash on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:00PM (#23226919)
Deaths are a lagging indicator and shouldn't be used for this comparison. On average, in cases of death, it is about 18 - 23 days between diagnosis and death (compared to 12 - 17 days for recovery).
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