The county I work in released a ton of data recently. In short, over a 12 month period (Mar 20-Feb 21), there were 1,575 monthly cases and 27.25 deaths. Over the past 5 mos (Mar 21-Jul 21) those numbers have dropped to 890 and 11.2, respectively. Good news, right?!? Most of us would agree a 59% decreases in deaths is a good thing.
However ... if you think that is good news, then you haven't been paying attention or you don't know how totalitarianism (or authoritarianism) works ...
No, no, no ... cases last week were 925! (BTW a significant # were "va$$inated".) This is slightly higher than the average number of monthly cases for 5 months, so from that perspective I understand some panic. [NOTE: according to the data release ... the ONLY way we can solve this is to get everyone va$'d.]
Then I looked in the data for deaths, bc in my mind, I don't generally care if I catch a flu or cold ... what I want to know: is this killing people? It was hard to find on the chart, but I finally found that deaths increased 200%! Why didn't they LEAD with this? Well, because the deaths went from 1 to 3. Of course, 3 deaths in a week (each is tragic), falls right in line with 11.2 deaths per month. Which we agreed earlier is a good thing and 1-3 per week should be expected if the average is 11/month.
Finally, they included a chart showing the surge of new cases along with the # of vaxd over time. A high number of ppl have been vac'd for nearly 3 months. But the spike hasn't occurred until the last two weeks? Weird ...
TIFWIW. Just saying info ...