Well worth reading. From early on I’ve argued that state data is mostly rubbish because states are just an arbitrary management level that aggregates and reports data. That works well for some purposes, but C-19 isn’t one of them. The tristate NYC metro area makes sense as a reporting unit, but NYS doesn’t. Ditto for FL: the peninsula is on fire, but the panhandle is ¯\(ツ)/¯. Trying to make sense of this is literally like trying to watch an old film that’s gone off the sprockets on the projector, or listen to halves of two different conversations as though they’re one. But state-level geography is just one of many ways we’re slicing and dicing the data all wrong.