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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes not going inside anywhere I don't have to and masking when I do. But haven't been inside a store or anywhere in a while bc I saw the wastewater [b]shoot up.[/b][/quote]
"Shoot up."

LOL.

We need better math education in this country![/quote]

Almost 5x in the last month. “Shoot up” is an accurate description of this graph:

https://biobot.io/data/

We need less BSing in this country.
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These did indeed shoot up!

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F0qv3g1x3dqhb1.png

"The metrics the CDC uses as early indicators of increasing virus activity also reflected small rises. Emergency department (ED) visits for COVID were up 21.4% compared to the previous week, with evaluation for COVID making up just 1.2% of all ED visits."

"CDC wastewater tracking reflects a general upward trend, with few sites reporting large increases."

Source: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/us-covid-markers-slightly-again

Worth the read: https://www.insider.com/august-flu-vs-covid-infection-rate-2023-8[/quote]
Your Reddit charts are for two months; they provide no historical perspective. As noted on another thread, a small increase from 2 to 6 can be presented as a 200% increase, but that percent gain is not meaningful when the denominator is so small.

The articles you cite actually undermine your "shooting up" argument. Instead they present a picture of small rises from a small base.
"The two main indicators that federal health officials use to track COVID-19 activity—hospitalizations and deaths—both registered [b]small [/b]rises this week"
"[b]Starting from very low levels[/b], hospitalizations for COVID rose 12.5% this week compared to last week. Though levels have now risen for the fifth straight week, COVID admissions still make up a small percentage of all hospitalizations."
"Biobot wastewater tracking suggests [b]gradually rising levels[/b] in all regions of the country"[/quote]

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