Saturday, August 15, 2020

Spreading COVID-19 in the United States


The United States of "You call that a pandemic? Hold my beer!"

I was looking at the CNN COVID-19 spread webpage again today, and got annoyed how the logarithmic chart they use makes it look like the spread is slowing down (not their intention, but most people don't understand logarithmic charts).  So, I dug around to find one that shows it in linear scale, instead.

Then I thought I'd mock it up, to really try to spell it out for the slow kids in the classroom.




"You can't cure stupid."  - Old axiom
"...but maybe a virus can kill it."  - COVID-19 corollary