Except those numbers are dumb, and not really tied to anything in particular. Know how Google will throw the first search result it thinks is decent up at you when you search so that you don't feel like you need to click on anything? It actually does a really shit job of that when it doesn't have the context that it so desperately needs, and nobody is doing "context" with COVID (they're doing North Dakota things like lopping a zero off). If I look up "zamak 2 casting temperature" on Google it'll tell me 2600f because there's a site that is stupidly wrong. Zamak 2 melts at 900f, that's why you make carburetors out of it. 2600f is somewhere awkward between gold and platinum and in any event is about 500f hotter than home furnaces will go which is good because otherwise I'd be out there making iridescent zinc gas.

The statistic WA state uses for openings and closings is cases/100k, 2-week rolling average. Thus, that data can't be scraped easily by Google or anyone else. Thus, the number I care about is "121.9 and skyrocketing"

while Google is at "9.1 and dropping." Which, looking at the data, was where we were May 29th. And if Google is comparing May data and October data (presuming Belgium is updated within the past 20 days), Google isn't doing anyone any favors.