Covid Hospitalized Patients per 100k – 25 Most vs. 25 Least Stringent States (opens in new tab)

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10 points1experience4y ago13 comments

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I think it’s worth noting that the difference between stringent and non stringentin the USA is dramatically different then say the difference in policy between Brazil and China. It may be that the big things - lock down at certain mathematical points versus universal masking mandates makes a huge difference.

loveistheanswer4y ago

We can't honestly use China as a data point, seeing as how they have been censoring from the beginning, and arresting activists who try to report on covid deaths.

https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/cai-wei

1experienceOP4y ago

10 Most vs 10 Least Stringent: https://twitter.com/IAmTheActualET/status/139042697357133005...

cashsterling4y ago

Doesn't bother to account for population density, which is a huge red flag or sign that author doesn't know what the heck is up.

WalterGR4y ago

Nor coastal vs. interior.

loveistheanswer4y ago

Very interesting.

What conclusions can we draw from this?

tom_mellior4y ago

Given that the author is an anti-masker conspiracy theorist, we can learn that one can score Internet brownie points in the anti-masker conspiracy theory community by plotting garbage data without providing sources or context.

stolenmerch4y ago

The data comes from healthdata.gov[1] and sources[2] at the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Kaiser Family Foundation, Ballotpedia, Editorial Projects in Education, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Restaurant Association, Littler Mendelson, Husch Blackwell and Ogletree Deakins.

How is this garbage data? Maybe it is, but I think you may need to do more work here than just calling him names. Everyone seems to feel very strongly about this on both sides, but I get the sense he made a good-faith effort with legitimate data. Perhaps you could do the same if you feel his conclusions were incorrect?

[1] https://healthdata.gov/dataset/COVID-19-Reported-Patient-Imp...

[2] https://wallethub.com/edu/states-coronavirus-restrictions/73...

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rasz4y ago

States arent the ones Karening around without a mask in enclosed spaces. How about a randomized study looking into social media history of hospitalized patients to get the % of those actually following best practices?

abracadaniel4y ago

Or just breaking it down by mask compliance rates per county. Masks are heavily political, but averaged across the size of a state things shift from red/blue to shades of purple. At the county level, these things seem (anecdotally) to separate much further. The hot spots around here were all in the rural areas with low mask rates.

loveistheanswer4y ago

Other than the geriatric and the obese, its the poor who are the most disproportionately hospitalized.

Its the poor who are also most harmed by the harsh economic effects of the covid response.

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InTheArena4y ago

loveistheanswer4y ago

We can't honestly use China as a data point, seeing as how they have been censoring from the beginning, and arresting activists who try to report on covid deaths.

https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/cai-wei

1experienceOP4y ago

10 Most vs 10 Least Stringent: https://twitter.com/IAmTheActualET/status/139042697357133005...

cashsterling4y ago

Doesn't bother to account for population density, which is a huge red flag or sign that author doesn't know what the heck is up.

WalterGR4y ago

Nor coastal vs. interior.

loveistheanswer4y ago

Very interesting.

What conclusions can we draw from this?

tom_mellior4y ago

stolenmerch4y ago