At least you’re smart enough not to hitch your rhetorical wagon to AZ. That catastrophe is a millstone when you’re trying to swim.
It belongs in the covid denialism thread, though. This thread is for talking about opening youth sports in CA.
What is interesting is that cases per million do not line up neatly with deaths per million. As a matter of fact the numbers jump all over the place when looking at the 2.
There are countries with fewer cases per million vs other countries and yet have higher deaths per million. It works the other way as well.
Same thing with states. There are a number of states with fewer cases per million then lets say CA and yet have dramatically higher deaths per million. And the reverse is true. There are states with higher cases per million with less deaths per million.
Utah has 100k cases per million and yet has far fewer deaths per million vs CA.
Wisconsin has almost the identical cases per million as AZ and yet their deaths per million is just above CA.
Michigan has about the same deaths per million as AZ but cases per million are well south of CA
And so on.
That implies strongly that cases per million and deaths per million do not work in tandem. There are clearly other factors at play that play it seems a greater role.
And back to the point. CA idea was to limit the spread of the disease. They have not done any better stopping the spread compared to the 2 other largest states in the union who took vastly different approaches.
One might ask...why have we shut our schools, biz, sports, etc when the spread of the virus here is the same as TX and FL who have not done those things CA did.