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Great analysis. One of my favorite courses was statistics and I’ve spent the covid years pointing out how all these scary metrics are being manipulated. For example our county has a population over 250k. When they compare cases weekly that can seem scary but if you consider total population it was never even 1% affected at any one time. We still have our county’s covid site up but the last update was at the end of May with most days under 10 cases. Since last Oct the highest case day was in January, 150 cases, well below even 1%. Perhaps they are keeping these active and ready to report increasing covid for their fall vaccine campaign.

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Walgreens, CVS - big players in the fraud. I can't even walk into one of those stores. Peace.

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They simply cannot let go. It was such a windfall. So many gave up so much so that so few could get filthy rich. All they can hope is that people are just as stupid next time. Seems like there is a pretty good chance that history will indeed repeat itself ... stay tuned.

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Who volunteers to get tested today? Gullible people who have the sniffles. Since that virus (like all other virus before it) will be with us forever, there will always be some cases out there. I think Mark Twain addressed this...

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UGHHH this right here. Who is still going to shove a q-tip into their nose to get some alleged illness reading 15 minutes later? Not me. No thank you. I will hard pass.

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It’s a place to get a quick test if you’re one of the few that didn’t get the “government handout kits”. Just another waste of taxpayers money. COVID appears that it will continue to be enigmatic. Big Pharma and the medical field will milk it as long as our government continues to fund it. What a waste.

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I'm honestly surprised the site is even functional still. Nearly all of my covid data sources have quietly shut down -- maybe with a message about how that the vaccines saved the day so we don't need any more data.

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Agreed! All of the local trackers have faded out into obscurity. This one seems to be hanging on to one final hurrah!

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I think the trackers will work in perpetuity. Gotta keep the idiots in fear!

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Thanks Jennifer. Captures the Fear Porn admirably.

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