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So it is curious that the curve moves on 7-day cycle like that - but what is the real premise here with the 'weekend' line? Certainly it isn't that the virus is somehow less lethal on weekends - that's silly.
So it must be that somehow we just report fewer Covid deaths on the weekends because of some human factor - but what? Are hospitals and public health officials workin' for the weekend, and they go out and party, leaving the numbers to the B team? Hospitals and public health officials don't really take weekends off.
Plus, if you look at the dates of those dips, the last three bottoms occur on Mondays (and this week looks like Tuesday) - not actually on the weekend. If it's some kind of 'weekend' theory, why would Monday record the fewest?
At the same time, it certainly does show three of the last four dip bottoms to be Mondays, and the fourth was a Sunday. So what's going on?
Pop quiz....can you spot the weekends?
So it is curious that the curve moves on 7-day cycle like that - but what is the real premise here with the 'weekend' line? Certainly it isn't that the virus is somehow less lethal on weekends - that's silly.
So it must be that somehow we just report fewer Covid deaths on the weekends because of some human factor - but what? Are hospitals and public health officials workin' for the weekend, and they go out and party, leaving the numbers to the B team? Hospitals and public health officials don't really take weekends off.
Plus, if you look at the dates of those dips, the last three bottoms occur on Mondays (and this week looks like Tuesday) - not actually on the weekend. If it's some kind of 'weekend' theory, why would Monday record the fewest?
At the same time, it certainly does show three of the last four dip bottoms to be Mondays, and the fourth was a Sunday. So what's going on?