Many state sites have a predictable weekly cycles of “new cases” spiking on Mondays and declining throughout the week, hitting the lows on Saturdays and Sundays when (surprise, surprise) most testing places are closed or on greatly reduced hours.
Figures lie and liars figure.
This is NOT about “your health” (Thanks, Grampa Dave!)
This is NOT about your health!
Yes
Sheltering and cowering in place can kill you and your loved ones!:
Heather Mac Donald, the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, writing in the Hill:
On Wednesday, Cuomo announced the shocking news that 84 percent of all hospital admissions were either people sheltering at home or nursing home residents. He shouldnt have been surprised. The risk of coronavirus infection occurs overwhelmingly indoors. Researchers in China identified only one outdoor outbreak of infection among over a thousand cases studied.
Most transmissions occurred at home, rendering the close-down-all-businesses-and-shelter-in-place rule contraindicated.