This CNN segment about Texas was agonizing. It's been well covered that the testing increase is the likely cause of increased caseload. But, this graph on mobility. Ugh.

The idea was to show that TX let everyone rush out of their houses, and that's the cause in the rise in cases. This graph breaks it out by category, which has visits to toy stores look like its skyrocketing, with other categories below but still increasing.

But, here's the summarized data of general merchandise stores from the same source. Zoomed out, the rise is not exactly impressive. So....

So, you only get roughly this chunk on the big screen. Taken in context, you can see the rise is not all that dramatic, began long before the lockdown ended, and seems to flatten out after their chart ended.

But, if you only show this part of the chart, you can paint a decent picture of craziness, especially if you break out the toy store data, which has a steeper increase.

I won't even go into the part where he was "told" that a 16% increase in traffic to bars - which are all closed - meant people were going to bars to "get them ready" to open. ??????? We didn't even have a date of when bars would open until yesterday.

The whole thing was a cluster to try and build a narrative. Anyway, more details on the TX situation here

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