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Nope; CA is one of the highest-growing states. The Bay Area was flat, but it just spiked yesterday and reopening is now paused.
Nope, just checked the data on the Santa Clara hospitalizations link - only the number of tests is increasing, not admissions or mortality. Same for months. The press is saying one thing, but the official stats say flat - month after month. I guess newspapers value outrage over public service. You would need a magnifying glass to see anything significant. Only 72 hospitalized patients today (2,278 more available), hi…
Hopefully this undermines your belief that technical people are in some way immune to all the biases, emotions, fears, hopes and general humanity of people at large. Frequently, they're worse; they believe themselves to be hyper-rational cyborgs driven purely by evidence, giving themselves carte blanche to assume they're unaffected and thus don't even need to examine their own thinking.
Yes, I too am a mental mess and use reasoning and convenient choice of evidence to justify decisions and opinions I already formed.