Not sure what you're asking about. I addressed your original questions early Saturday about how Rt was calculated and showed that the UK model did not always show a higher Rt than the Rt-live site - it's just that it's more sensitive to changes than the Rt-live site, which I prefer, while you may not. I've also never "mocked" Rt-live and not sure why you said I did.
Whine? I Report positive news. You hope for bad news. Why? I don't root for bad news at all. "Good news" is all relative these days, tho. You whine about restaurants and gyms every day, no matter what. You think that's having an impact? It's just a pretty weak look. Take a long weekend -...
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@DJ Spanky - hey, just curious, the text one sees when looking at the post of mine I linked above is actually from multiple other posts by other people, (including one from King of S at 1:44 pm on Friday and fsg's follow-up to that post a few hours later), not from my post, but if you click on the post link, it does bring you to my post. Thought that was really weird - any explanation?
The twitter thread you posted isn't very helpful in explaining your point, although I'll admit I don't use Twitter much so maybe I'm missing something - all I see is Kurt talking about how deaths are reported in the UK. You've mentioned reporting errors, as did Murphy.
Do you have confirmation that numbers around 7/20, which were a local minimum, and numbers by the end of July, which were a local maximum, were due purely to reporting errors with regard to timing? It's one thing to hear that there were reporting issues (which there have been throughout the pandemic, as it's hard, in the midst of chaos to always get the data correct) and another to know exactly what happened.
If you're right, then yeah, Murphy shouldn't have used rising numbers and a rising Rt as justification for adding restrictions, although he wasn't making things up about a spate of well-publicized incidents of really bad behaviors around the state.
Regardless, looking at the case numbers and the transmission numbers now from both Rt sites, it certainly seems like NJ could be at least incrementally reopening things to, say, NY's level. And Murphy said so much today. I also don't buy the "power trip" angle at all - I just think he truly doesn't want to see us slip back like so many other places have - and it's certainly not something that's making him more popular.
Dining out in New Jersey, one of the slowest states in the country to reopen, still means dining outside. There's now a glimmer of hope.
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