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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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My mom is responsible for updating all of Los Angeles' numbers. It's literally "someone sent an email with updated new numbers, put them on the government website/in the database". There's no "making sense of the data" phase, just copy, paste, and hope whoever delivered those numbers did it correctly. She described the situation "all hands on deck, extra shifts, and losing staff to sickness daily"; the last thing the…
There's nothing wrong with that - in a peculiar situation, wherein there is no 'standard web site' something ad-hoc is perfectly reasonable. In the 'old days,' it would be a public number board or chalkboard, but it would be accurate. This is what a lot of ladies in the military or in operational centers would have done. And definitely nothing wrong with hand-tweaked HTML. I wish sites were basic enough and HTML clea…
At the end of the day, hiding exponential growth of this is impossible. That's what really bugs me about those who love to point fingers at how this or that country is counting things wrong (often revealing their biases in the process). Maybe every country has a random constant factor between actual cases and reported cases. But it doesn't matter - if it goes exponential, we'll know.
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Unfortunately for you, people have been using neutral language to start daily flame-wars and getting away with it.
It's easy to make grand claims like that. Where are the links? It's not ok for anyone to start flamewars on HN, and lord knows I spend enough of my life telling people so. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.co…
For e.g.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22703219
Commenter labels a legitimate company as "skeezy", uses needlessly insulting language to polarize discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22703881
Commenter uses the usual government trope to polarize discussion.
The team behind https://covid19japan.com fights with this nonsense every day. We're open ears to improvements, and are playing with ways to possibly automate bits. Our GitHub: https://github.com/reustle/covid19japan/
This is fantastic, terrific way to visualize this information. It's interesting that Hokkaido is red for infections but the growth rate is really slow. Are the distant prefectures less likely to follow guidelines from Tokyo and reporting more honestly?
Hokkaido is about the size of South Carolina and approximate population of 6 million people. ~2.5M of which live in Sapporo. Most of the island is more rural with many tourist destinations. It's a popular destination for Chinese tourists in winter.
>Are the distant prefectures less likely to follow guidelines from Tokyo
Tokyo was seen as mostly following Hokkaido governor's lead early on. Hokkaido was the first to close schools, etc.
>and reporting more honestly?
Could HN dwellers stop implying Japan is handling this dishonestly? That is extremely rude coming from the nation whose CDC was angry to accept 14 infected citizens from the only ally nation that would accept their US Diamond Princess cruise ship and provide care for passengers.
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This is fantastic, terrific way to visualize this information. It's interesting that Hokkaido is red for infections but the growth rate is really slow. Are the distant prefectures less likely to follow guidelines from Tokyo and reporting more honestly?
>It's interesting that Hokkaido is red for infections but the growth rate is really slow. Hokkaido is about the size of South Carolina and approximate population of 6 million people. ~2.5M of which live in Sapporo. Most of the island is more rural with many tourist destinations. It's a popular destination for Chinese tourists in winter. >Are the distant prefectures less likely to follow guidelines from Tokyo Tokyo wa…
They are. The incredible rate of test refusal here is keeping the numbers very low.
Knowing Japan, I bet some poor freshly graduated but elite sod in the health ministry was, out of the blue, told by his boss "here's a bunch of reports from different prefectures. Make a report out of them." So he goes off and try to make sense of the data, which is why you see those magic and unexplained equations in the report. The kicker is the most complex computer thing he ever did in his life was that Word pres…
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>It's interesting that Hokkaido is red for infections but the growth rate is really slow. Hokkaido is about the size of South Carolina and approximate population of 6 million people. ~2.5M of which live in Sapporo. Most of the island is more rural with many tourist destinations. It's a popular destination for Chinese tourists in winter. >Are the distant prefectures less likely to follow guidelines from Tokyo Tokyo wa…
> Could HN dwellers stop implying Japan is handling this dishonestly? They are. The incredible rate of test refusal here is keeping the numbers very low.
In Japan 6-7% of the tests come back positive. This is not at all indicative of too little testing.