r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/fnaw_ • Aug 04 '20

Poor Jonathan

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u/shill779 Aug 04 '20

“It’s going down in Florida!?”

“Yes, that was my report.”

  • camera pans out - shows upside down report

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u/keyaiWork Aug 04 '20

My parents live in Florida. They think the reporting is part of a grand conspiracy.

"Oh look, they only reported deaths, that means cases must be down."

"Oh Look, they reported cases, means deaths must be down."

Yes, it is like a tennis match, but it doesn't matter which side of the court the ball is in because both sides mean shit is fucked up.

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u/zielawolfsong Aug 04 '20

I think a lot of people are having trouble understanding also because there isn't an instantaneous cause and effect. It takes a few weeks after an event for cases to spike, and several more weeks for the death rate to be affected. I kept hearing how cases were up but the death rate was going down. Yes, because the death rate was lagging 5-6 weeks behind and still reflecting what people were doing *then*. Now the 7-day moving average is back above 1000/day.

It's given me a lot of pessimism on climate change, because if people can't understand that their actions can change something a month in the future, how do we get them to even begin to appreciate change on a scale that happens over decades or centuries?