Posted on 04/22/2020 7:50:08 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On April 8, roughly eleven minutes into a video press conference, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz displayed a line graph created by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH).
This graph compared confirmed COVID-19 cases in Minnesota to confirmed cases in 16 other states. By the looks of it, these states are all on the same trajectory. In short, it appears it’s just a matter of time before each state is facing New York-levels of COVID-19 cases, but there’s a slight problem with the line graph...This is why Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) created new graphs with a consistent Y-axis scale. Using publicly available information on COVID-19 cases in each of the same states as the misleading MDH graph, our graph shows a very different picture of the current status of COVID-19 cases. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at alphanewsmn.com ...
Democrats are strangers to the truth.
Why don’t you just paste the graph in the thread for us ???
My computer is practicing social distancing from viruses of all sorts...
Because it is a whole article discussing a before and after set of graphs.
I don’t see a problem for logarithmic scales for people that are not too stupid to understand them. For large numbers and large differences between numbers, I prefer them. Logarithmic scales also reveal exponential growth which isn’t always obvious on a linear axis.
I think the log graphs are easier to understand, because it becomes obvious if the slope is changing with time.
To be fair, what SHOULD be shown are the underlying data - some people work better with tables vs charts. For the data junkies, on my About page I've posted standardized fatality data. (Nana - this is a virus-free link.) I divide each municipality's cumulative COVID-19 fatality count by its population, then multiply the resulting quotient by the US' population of 329MM to put everyone on a common/US scale. I then index each municipality's time-series to Day 1, where their size-adjusted fatality count is right before it breaches 1,000 people. This corrects for what I call the "Golf Problem" where broadcasts of the Masters etc have to show not only each golfer's score, but which hole they're at. I also list the Day 1 date and the population for reference.
On this basis, MN is looking VERY solid, with an adjusted fatality total on Day 22 that is roughly one-third that of the national total, and well below "hands off" Sweden and Netherlands. Open it up!
“Just look at Minnesota: our state’s confirmed infection rates look to be about half as bad as New York when it actually has about 1/30th of the reported COVID-19 cases.”
So far.
Blue State Governors are imposing harsh shutdowns to hurt Trump.
They don’t care about their economies as they have been told by Pelosi that the Feds will bail them out.
But in this case NY is a big outlier and by not showing that we are painting a false picture of how the the virus is affecting the country.
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