0.391808873720137% of Covid Deaths Today Resulted from Texas and Florida Republican...

[Stallion]

Governors who rushed to reopen the economy without following CDC Guidelines recommending 14 days of declining Covid cases

TEXAS:322
FLORIDA: 252
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574

FORTY PERCENT!!!!

and that doesn't even include the long list of other Republican southern and western governors who followed their lead

[Ms. Toad]

1. I think you mean 39.1808873720137%

(.39 . . . % is less than 1%)

[triron]

4. .39 is ok but .39% is 100 times too small. (thanx for the correction)

[Blue_true]

7. He could simply drop the % in the title.

That would make it right, since it would then refer to a fraction.

[Ms. Toad]

9. I was going with how they chose to write it -

which was as a percent, in which case the decimal point is two places off.

[Blue_true]

11. That is true with the % there.

That mistake is easy enough to make. I know that I have to double check myself when formulating new chemical solutions, because I have made the mistake the OP made, then am flushed-faced when I weigh or pour out a component and think “wow, that seems like a lot”.

[Ms. Toad]

12. I do the same with my electronic grade records -

which involve a complex weighting schemeformulas in an Excel spreadsheet. I look a the underlying grades and have a pretty good idea where everyone will end up - so when I get surprises I double check my formulas and usually find I've forgotten to multiply by 100 in one of of the grading categories before weighting it.

[Make7]

2. Shouldn't the thread title be 39.18%? ( n/t )

[USALiberal]

6. +1000! nt

[Doodley]

3. Every life should be sacred. The priority of a captain is safety of the passengers and crew. For GOP

governors, lives are cheap. Safety isn't a priority. Charting a safe course isn't a priority. The only priority is to sail blindly into a storm because Captain Trumpfuck told them to do so.

[USALiberal]

5. Well, 39% was enough to post! nt

[BigmanPigman]

8. Texas had a big increase due to a "correction"...

"From the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS): "July 30: Cumulative fatalities have been corrected for July 27, 28 and 29. As DSHS shifted to using death certificate data to count fatalities this week, an automation error caused approximately 225 fatalities to be included that did not have COVID-19 listed as a direct cause of death. A manual quality check revealed the issue late Wednesday."
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

[Ms. Toad]

10. Ugh. That means another big death correction -

after two already this week going as far back as early March.

[Blue_true]

13. So, will the correction make the Covid death number larger or smaller.

I am really suspicious of reports from Texas and Florida due to them being run by republican assholes.

[BigmanPigman]

15. It depends on which site you go to for info.

Worldometers is what I look at and they use GMT as a time frame. When they report a correction in data from a country or state the new data is incorporated into the graphs and tables and it balances out. There is a chance that the numbers may be lower tomorrow based on the time frame.

For some reason certain states and countries submit data before the day is over, often right after a "new" day has just begun. That is the part that is difficult to understand (at least for me). Example: How can Mexico report a certain number of new cases and new deaths and it is on the chart only two hours after GMT has changed dates when Mexico is not even one of the first countries in the first time zone?

I don't trust many countries and states and what they report. Worldometers is pretty good about getting correct info, even when certain political leaders try to hide the data.

[SpaceNeedle]

14. Sorry for the dead people

but I bet most of them were trumpanzees who refused to follow science.

[Gothmog]

16. WOW