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thucythucy

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1. Call me picky, but saying

Reply to TomCADem (Original post)

Tue Aug 25, 2020, 06:03 PM

Aug 2020

Georgia's "overall case count" has been "falling throughout August" is confusing at best. The overall case count for a state doesn't fall unless cases of Covid-19 that were confirmed are for some reason subtracted from the total.

Reading the sentence i can infer that the writer meant that the rate of new cases was falling, but reading the sentence wouldn't necessarily give me that meaning.

What ever happened to copy editors? Is this another job (like spell checking) given over to AI?

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Georgia no longer worst among states for coronavirus transmission [View all] TomCADem Aug 2020 OP

Call me picky, but saying thucythucy Aug 2020 #1

Maybe they're talking about NEW case counts FakeNoose Aug 2020 #2

Hospitalizations continue to drop daily as well. Which is what I look at. oldsoftie Aug 2020 #3