The importance of TIME SCALE on charts.

My county commissioner shared these two charts. Clearly our hospital capacity is FINE, but the trend is a bit alarming. More than a bit.

General Bed Usage 3/18/2021 to 8/3/2021
ICU Bed Usage 3/18/2021 to 8/3/2021

Then I decided to create those same charts for a full year, to see if there is a cyclical nature to this.

General Bed Usage 8/3/2020 to 8/3/2021
Hospital/COVID Census year over year (ICU Bed Usage no data)

Yes, of course there is. Nature is what it is, and even operates on engineered viruses. So…there is a trend, it deserves watching, it does not deserve panic.

Panic helps no one – other than advertising and click dependent idiots. Don’t support them.

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