I think someone is dicking around with the Coronavirus numbers in my county.

[Baitball Blogger]

We went from numbers that were steadily increasing, to a high of ten new cases a couple of days ago. And then I recorded 374 total cases last night, and today the number is 373. Is someone trying to give De Santis numbers to support his political objectives?

[William769]

1. I think it's all of Florida.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. I think they're cheating, and I hope they get exposed.

They can start with Seminole County. Why did the number drop by 1 between 4/28 and 4/29?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Sometimes there can be a miscount.

Especially with a difference of one case.

My local newspaper, The Santa Fe New Mexican, devotes most of an entire page every day to what's going on in this state with the Coronavirus. They will note things like: A case that was attributed to Santa Fe County was really a man in Bernalillo County, or something like that.

If it went from 374 to, say, 310, you would want to know what was going on, but 374 to 373? Not really a big deal. They are not covering up one case.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. It's not just one case if you consider that every day has had an increase of 2-8.

[uppityperson]

5. They were counting presumed covid-19 deaths for a bit, now aren't again

Trying to make the numbers look better so they can open up again. Seems counter productive too me.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. That's exactly what's going on. Trump has validated the good ole boy dishonesty

that is characteristic of Central Florida. They will lie, bully and cheat to get their way.

[dewsgirl]

7. It's all the counties.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. We're being played.

Who has the authority to expose them?

[dewsgirl]

10. I don't know, I wish I did. We are in real trouble here in Florida

I think they are seriously hiding cases/deaths here.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. They are.

There has to be a law that will make them face charges for creating a health problem for us.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. So even if they are not counting cases,

and keep in mind that there's an inclination to not count anyone who hasn't been tested and gotten a positive result, the real number is roughly the excess deaths over the normal number of deaths. I may be naive, but that's not something that can easily be covered over. Certainly not in anything but the short run. States all have bureaus of vital statistics, and those people are going to care a lot about the raw numbers.

It's also true that we are in the very early stages, really, of this thing, so of course there's a lot of confusion out there.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. It makes sense why Trump doesn't want to enforce federal oversight.

Allows his Republican governors to use whatever method they like.