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kleinbl00  ·  1274 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Woke up this morning to zero new COVID cases in Victoria

Yeah that's the truly frustrating thing. I don't think there is one. I probably wouldn't care so much if I wasn't dealing with my county, my state and UW all dealing with the same data (at some level) and all reporting different shit.

I lean into FT from time to time, but that's probably more to do with the fact that they were the first ones to put international data together in a legible fashion, and they call out underreported deaths more. I check NYT for the same reason - their visualizations are better. I don't think their data is necessarily good but I don't think anyone's is.

The disunity around COVID is one of the most discouraging things I've ever seen. I watched an interview with Sanjay Gupta last night on Colbert. He pointed out that accounting for population, COVID in the US is exactly as fatal, at exactly the same speed, as the 1918 pandemic. It's like we've learned NOTHING.