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Well first DC has to stop being a red zone.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/map/washington-dc |
Really? The angry bitter divorcee stereotype is what you’re defending. |
Wow that truly is an alarming looking color without context. I prefer the blue one below that which also lacks context. It's much more calming. |
not enough for you lol "This map shows a rolling average of daily cases for the past week. This is the best sign of hot spots." |
| Ooo or maybe the one with the purple scale. I like purple. |
Do you understand that this is meant to show data at the county level within states? |
Here's another idea: Teachers actually do their jobs. Stop treating the pandemic like it's some never-ending paid vacation and just go to work. |
You do realize DC is not CA right? It's small and it's all red. |
| Coronavirus rates are already plummeting and hardly anyone has been vaccinated. By this fall, the coronavirus rates in DC will be microscopic. |
DC is under 5% positivity rate as of today (this is based on a 7-day average). That is very low. |
Why are we a red zone then? I am seriously asking, I posted on here because I am just now returning in person (I was on leave due to personal reasons) by choice. But some of my coworkers are trying to dissuade me from going in person. |
The whole scale on the first map is shades of red/red-adjacent colors. DC is actually a lightish shade of red on the provided scale (e.g., it falls in the third of 7 segments from least to most worrying). In the next map, DC is blue... because the scale is all blue and blue adjacent colors. Did you actually read the scale/look at what it was measuring... or just look at the color and assume red was bad? |
Haha no, I thought to open safely we should be orange. I wasn't comparing CA's rates but it's size because someone said this is not valid because it's not zoomed in. But I used CA as an example because we are not as huge, zooming in isn't a big deal. |
OMG. Did you look at the map? The red zone of WHAT? All of the colors worse than us are darker reds. The whole scale is red/red adjacent colors. DC is actually below the middle of that scale. Anyway, positivity rate and number of cases are somewhat related, but not directly related. They tell you somewhat different things. In a place with lots of testing -- like DC, we have easy access to excellent free tests -- there will be more cases even with a low positivity rate. In some big square state with a handful of testing sites and many COVID deniers, the positivity rate will be sky high (people are basicaly only being tested on admission to hospitals), but the number of cases will be low because 95% of cases are going undetected (as compared with 40% or whatever somewhere like DC). |