justsomeantifas:

I don’t think people are understanding that states like Arizona literally reopened things like restaurants during their highest rates of infection they’d experience to date … and it only went up from there … they didn’t wait for a decrease.

the state failed to meet what was considered the standard for reopening which was:

• 14 days of declining positive coronavirus tests.
• 14 days of declining positive tests as a percentage of total tests done
  

and now many people have died.

It didn’t happen like some of the european reopenings, or even other US reopenings, where there was a legitimate decline. No. there was no valid decline.

This is why Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, is recording as many as 2,000 cases a day, “eclipsing the New York City boroughs even on their worst days,” warned a Wednesday brief by disease trackers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

The governor Doug Ducey literally threw the people of Arizona to the fire and then cried “faulty statistics.” When the hospitals were very obviously already overwhelmed when he forced a reopening and Maricopa Country did not want to reopen.