[lborsato]

As Governor Gavin Newsom says, it’s all about seasonality:

“We know why: because [of] the seasonality to COVID,” Newsom said. “It’s not particularly difficult, after a couple of years, to understand. You see those trends in Europe. You see those trends extend in other parts of the globe. Unfortunately, that’s what’s happening here.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-09/winter-i...

[mrfusion]

That’s definitely a fair argument to make. I’d be curious what you’d think about the media’s response to the exact same claim when Desantis made it:

https://old.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/qr34sz/...

(A reddit comment with a collection of links to articles)