A day after the NY Times runs a laudatory piece on Arizona's successful pandemic response, the state sees a surge in new cases and deaths

[jerwin]

There’s a lag in behavior and there’s a lag in testing. There’s probably a lag in journalism. People want to hear about downward trajectories and upward trajectories, and policy changing those trajectories, but they end up delighting in random noise. It’s like the stock market, but without the benefit of immediate feedback.