Today is a new day, which means it is time to present a new Ron DeSantis conspiracy theory.
The governor of Florida has become Public Enemy #1 In the past few months, even the White House In vain Come attack him.Its setting is that Delta variants proliferate, and it’s now Start to happen In other states with more severe mitigation, more evidence is provided that the peak is seasonal, rather than lacking some magical government measures, such as mask injunctions.
So here we are, Florida seems to be falling while others are rising, which means it is time to claim that he lied on the numbers again. This is an idiot fully demonstrated by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Florida has changed the way it reports COVID statistics. result?The pandemic does not seem to be that serious, and the number of deaths has decreased recently https://t.co/kQnO7niDLb pic.twitter.com/K0DluQVTna
-South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) August 13, 2021
Read the paragraph above to see if you find the problem.
According to this report, the scandal here is that Florida changed the way they report data to the CDC (I believe this change occurred at the beginning of the year) more acurrate. Drawing a death chart based on the actual date of death is objectively a better way to track death than a large-scale, out-of-context dump on different reporting days. This is why the red line is more fluid, sometimes displayed above the green line, sometimes displayed below.
In view of this, the accusation of the Sun Sentinel is stupid.They claim that this change “seems” that the death toll is decreasing, but if the death toll is reported on the day that it actually occurs, then they Is decreasingThe red line is a more realistic picture of reality. At the same time, whenever there is a report, the green line will be affected. The deaths in these reports sometimes occur weeks in advance due to late reports.
Now, you may ask yourself why they chose this point in time to make this accusation. They did this to ease the current differences, implying that DeSantis “lied” on the issue of death from COVID. Although there is no evidence to support it, this has been a popular conspiracy theory in various forms for more than a year. However, if we wait another week or so, you will see the green and red lines merge again, as you have done in the past few months.
In any case, the data that should have been hidden here is not even hidden.If you wanna watch Other recipes Based on the report date rather than the actual date of death, Google “Florida COVID death toll” and the chart will immediately pop up.
All in all, this is another cheap job where a Florida newspaper cannot control its prejudices. These media are no better than their national counterparts. Nothing is hidden here, every death is reported. But this does not stop the madness of conspiracy theorists. This is the goal of the Sun Sentinel.
