The Coronavirus

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-18-2020, 10:12 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(05-18-2020, 04:30 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The facts on the ground say the climate is warmer in the south than in New York.  If climate was the driving factor right now, New York would not be having fewer cases, the southern states more.

Wikipedia data shows that New York had 1889 new cases and 141 new deaths on the most recent day for which they had figures, May 16.  By comparison, Texas had 785 new cases and 31 new deaths.  Florida had 1189 new cases and 16 new deaths.  The idea that New York has "fewer cases" is delusional.

I don't blame lying for your falsehood, though.  It's clearly just cluelessness.

The CNN report has the northeast curves going down, the whole south going up.  Clearly isolation policies are dominant over climate.  Yes, the northeast got hit first.  Their absolute values are higher.  They peaked, at least for the first wave.

I don't interpret your misreading the numbers as deliberate lying, just cluelessness.  We'll see if the models are correct, that we will have many more infections in the south in a few weeks, followed a few weeks later by more deaths.