re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Chalk that up to no national plan for how to deal with this.

When the federal government told the states “you’re on your own,” each state had to create their own information centre from scratch.

Since there was no common denominator between the states, then the maladministration hijacked the CDC’s usual roll in collecting data (where there could have been one site with all the information), that fell on universities, private individuals, &c to go through the patchwork of state and territorial sites to try to make something coherent out of them.

Since each private site also has no particular way to collect data, and some are more interested in one thing than another, you wind up with different displays, different methods of collating data, different charts, &c.

All of this falls directly on the White House.

I don’t love the US response to the epidemic either, but I don’t think this can be blamed on them. Worldmeter harvests data from “local” sites, and there’s nothing to stop them from picking up the data from the CA site and publishing it. Yet the numbers don’t match.

Also, Worldmeter is international, so almost all of their data comes from sites the CDC has nothing to do with.