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No. The virus is laughing at China's 'trends', and Russia's overall numbers, and people that have Covid but die of late stage inoperable cancer getting counted as a Covid death. Those are things that the virus laughs at.

I edited my comment to address the first graph. And, c'mon. Can we have a good discussion/debate without getting condescending? I'm not trying to change your mind, and I'm not saying Covid is going away. I do think it is trending down, albeit much slower than I expected it would when summer hit. And, yes, masks, social distancing, etc. contributed a lot to those numbers going down.

Your link shows a graph for the entire state of Texas. Mine was specific to Harris County. That said, if the Department of Health told me the number was 10 and the Houston Chronicle told me it was 20, I would run with the number provided by the Department of Health. Edit: Your other graph is total cases, not new ones. And, I already explained how that can be misleading because of the length of tim it takes to recover.

I think one thing that can be very misleading is looking at 'active' cases instead of new cases. According to the official numbers for Harris County, Texas, new cases peaked in mid-May (check out the graph in link). Most of those cases would still be considered active because they have not cycled through the normal recovery period. However, the number of daily new cases since May 19th has trended down. Once that spike in mid May cycles through, it's quite likely that total cases will begin to go down as well (pending the impacts of re-opening). https://publichealth.harriscountytx.gov/Resources/2019-Novel-Coronavirus

I never said CNN fudged numbers, because they did not provide any. Why have a shrill headline that alludes to a something numeric and then not provide actual numbers to support the argument? Instead of numbers, let's say they fudged words. One of the workers at the polling place I went to today did not have a mask. Younger guy. I wanted to punch him in the face, thinking about how many people he could have exposed today if he had the virus.

When/If we get the next spike, then it's fair game to talk about it. But, it's not spiking in DC right now, the numbers say otherwise. It's fine if you don't agree with me calling out the media, but wouldn't the world be a better place without fake news? As far as things opening up, hey I hear you. I wear a mask every time I go out. I get mad at people that aren't. I carry hand sanitizer in the car. I wash my hands multiple times an hour when I'm awake. When I voted in the Indiana primary today, I stayed 6 feet away from others at the poll. I am in no way promoting that we start having huge public orgies. All I am asking is that the media give me a fair representation of what is going on so I don't have to figure it out for myself.

Oh, and according to the DC Department of Health, the number of cases 'spiked' again today, going from 56 cases yesterday to 29 today.

My point all along is that the media is flaming the COVID story. Multiple times I have questioned on here how/why they come up with these alarming headlines that are at best misleading and at worst right down false. Yesterday's headline by CNN that claimed DC cases were spiking had no supporting statistics in the story. I mean, absolutely, nothing. So, I decided I would look at it myself. Not only do I not see a spike, I see a clear trend of cases decreasing. Not every day. There are blips here and there. But, the trend is clearly going down, not spiking. So, I chose to call CNN out in the thread, as I have with other media outlets previously. As far as where @Brass Cannon is getting his numbers, I'm not sure. I have checked the University of Washington numbers that the government uses, the New York Times, and The DC Department of Health. I can't find the numbers he is reporting anywhere.

District of Columbia COVID19 cases as reported by the New York Times today. Look at the graphing in the article. Everything is trending down. You can even hover and get the exact number for a day, Your numbers are simply not there. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/washington-dc-coronavirus-cases.html

Where are your numbers coming from?

More on 'spiking', Indiana went from less than 300 new cases and 9 deaths yesterday to over 400 new cases and 55 46 deaths today. However, you can't look at that and scream "SPIKE'. Mondays are historically the lowest number of the week because many counties do not tabulate totals on Sunday, which is what gets reported on Monday. Again, the 7, 14, and monthly trends show that the number of cases and deaths in Indiana are trending down. Not a steep dip, but trending down nonetheless. Edit: Just noticed the state's official death tally for today is 46. Some of the COVID reporting sites like to include 'possible' deaths in the numbers, and the 55 I mentioned above comes from there. For further comparison, the Indiana Department of health reports 2,022 total deaths, while the other site is reporting 2,197.

Okay. I went for the general trend, but if you want to argue that, on May 28th, or only 3 days before yesterday, the number was 86. so again there is no 'spike' The bottom line is if there are 55 cases on Monday and 56 cases on Tuesday, the media is going to call Tuesday a spike. The 7 day, 14 day, and one month trends show cases going down in DC The media simply wants to influence gullible people that only read headlines and nothing else.

Headline on CNN states 'Coronavirus cases SPIKE in DC'!. I looked it up. DC reported 56 new cases today. One month ago, on May 1st, DC reported 335 new cases. It's unbelievable the lengths the press will go to in order to misinform. https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/district-of-columbia

I was just looking at Spain's trends and noticed on May 25th that they removed 1,915 deaths from their books. Double counting? Change in criteria? In any event, much like Italy, this thing is definitely on the decline in Spain. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/

I'll give Russia this. Their numbers are probably closer to being accurate than China's.

As of today, respirator usage related to Covid-19 in Indiana is only at 4.8% of available machines. the ICU bed percentage is 14.5% of available beds.

I think you are improperly using the word 'spike'. i don't know of any location in the U.S. that has a significant percentage of more cases now than it did 3-4 weeks ago, unless you're talking about a random county in Montana that had 2 cases then and has 3 now, for a 50% increase.. Numbers may be slightly up in other places, but testing has increased significantly as well, so that explains a lot in regards to those locations. That said, are the numbers declining as much as we hoped they would as the weather warms up? No, they are not. Should people still take precautions, social distance, wear masks, etc.? Absolutely. But, every headline I see online about cases 'spiking' has no factual basis once you click the link and read the corresponding story. Now, in Brazil, the virus is spiking at an alarming rate.. Not in the U.S. though.

Very good news if source is legitimate. Thanks for sharing. hopefully, the U.S. trends will follow suit over the next few weeks.

We need more Louis Armstrong right now.

Overhead view 6 hours after I replaced the dripping faucet in my master bath.

Damn avocados. You can't trust them. Now, canned pineapple. There's a fruit you can trust.

Billboards on the Indiana / Michigan border.

New study claims up tp 80% of virus cases are asymptomatic. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/up-to-80-of-covid-19-infections-are-asymptomatic-a-new-case-report-says/ar-BB14GB3y?ocid=msedgntp

News reporter criticizing folks in Wisconsin for not wearing masks. Guy in Packers jersey walks into the picture and tells the world the cameraman isn't wearing a mask. Now, I think people should be wearing masks, but for the media to go out of their way to bash people but not even make their off air staff wear a mask just makes me shake my head.

I absolutely do not get the refusal to wear a mask thing. Such a simple thing to follow that reflects concern for your fellow man.