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I forget whether you're in Nebraska, or are just a Husker that got stranded in Iowa?

Either way:

California has over 200,000 cases, but only 5469 cases/1M population.

Iowa has 9122 cases/1M and Nebraska has 9770 cases/1M.

My own county (Orange) has only 4178 cases/1M. Los Angeles county, with almost 100K cases themselves, has only a 9750 cases/1M rate.

So... Yeah... Flyover states are doing swimmingly.

I do think news outlets should give figures like these expressed in cases per million. Thanks for your insightful analysis.

COVID-19, cases per 100,000 population. These stats are since start of the pandemic. They consider the recent surge, but do not account for the most current conditions. This compares the four surging states’ overall COVID-19 infections, with Iowa’s.
#11 Arizona - 1,016 per 100,000
#13 Iowa – 904 per 100,000
#24 Florida – 657 per 100,000
#32 California – 545 per 100,000
#33 Texas – 518 per 100,000
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109004/coronavirus-covid19-cases-rate-us-americans-by-state/

Someone else who finds % ICU usage could give us a better optic describing the current situation. Not sure that stat is available.

Aside from deaths or cases per capita, a significant factor to watch is TRENDLINES.  Georgia is spiking up on cases, no doubt about it.  Hospitalizations is trending up, but less dramatically (a lot less) and deaths (a laggard) is bouncing around.

I still wonder what should be shut down here to limit this.  I lean to thinking bars and indoor dining.  We don't have "bars" that I know of around here, we have restaurants that do a lot of alcohol business.

My thought would be bars and gyms, with indoor dining limited to 25%.

I got tested yesterday. Piece of cake. Took me 15 minutes, round trip.

It would be interesting to see that attempted, bars/gyms/25% indoor dining, and how fast and how much it had any impact.

It will also be interesting to see what happens now in Europe and NYC etc. as things begin to reopen.  My GUESS is they see a rise in infections and everyone ends up where Sweden is, more or less.  Rural states would be different.

My thoughts as well. As if we all stayed at home for nothing, but to flatten the curve (kick the can). Would we have been overwhelmed in the hospitals? How many beds were built by he Army Corps, that went untouched?

Everyone coughs and sneezes during the day.  Most of us are taught to cover our mouth when we do it, and turn away from others.  The reason for this is clear.

It makes since that shouting would spread the virus, and even singing.  Any "expectoration" has that potential.  If that person wears a mask, the chance they spread the virus is materially reduced.

And there is presymptomatic as well as asymptomatic.  Neither of these types have any basis for staying home.  

Your takes on this have been very weird for the past several weeks.  You are actively rooting for deaths in Texas.  You'll say you're not, you probably even believe you're not--

But you are.

I can only wonder... why?

I don't know that "rooting for" is correct here.

I think a lot of people are doing the "I told you so" routine, with Arizona, Texas and Florida. It's politicized. "They" mostly don't mention California, the "they" mostly don't bother digging into the real numbers. Testing has shot through the roof in Florida in the past week, with about a 40% increase in tests. Percent positive is also shooting up, sitting at 9%, up from 4% a month ago.

It's the 18-35 y/o group that is the culprit here. They pack the bars, pack house parties, pack beaches. No masks. I do applaud them for getting tested, for sure. Most do not show symptoms, or very little symptoms.

I'm trying to figure out Wisconsin, which has been full-on open since the state Supreme Court struck down the lockdown order on May 14. No huge spikes there. The numbers look to be trending down for most of the State. I've only seen my little pocket in Kenosha, and mask-wearing is 50-50. Even Milwaukee is trending downward.

Georgia is not doing that bad but like Texas needs to get hospitalizations down