You deserve a six-feet-apart air high-five, Ohio. You’re killing the social distancing game, according to your phone data.
New York and Norway-based data and analytics company Unacast revealed the findings of its “Social Distancing Scoreboard,” which shows just how good — or bad — of a job some states are doing at navigating this whole staying the hell away from people thing amid a global pandemic mess.
Ohio is currently receiving an ‘A’ grade from the site and is just outside the top 5 states, behind the District of Columbia, Alaska, Nevada, New Jersey and Rhode Island. An ‘A’ grade means Ohioans have decreased our total distance travelled by over 40%.
OK, OK, but how did Unacast get this data exactly? According to The Detroit Free Press, they use “anonymous device location data, map data, and strategic intelligence.” But for this data specifically, they turned to public data sets like location information provided through third-parties. Yes, companies have your data.
States that could be better at staying home and away? Oregon and New Mexico, both of which have C scores. Idaho and Montana are dropping the ball with Ds, and Wyoming is straight-up failing at social distancing. Tsk-tsk.
Cuyahoga County decreased distance traveled by 45%, while surrounding counties Geauga (52%), Lake (41%) and Summit (48%) are also receiving ‘A’ grades. Medina (38%) and Lorain (37%) aren’t far behind with ‘B’ grades. We’ll give them ‘B+’.
The bottom three counties in Ohio are Preble, Williams and Fayette, which are all receiving ‘F’ grades.
With Governor DeWine’s executive order to Stay At Home, the state began to see a dramatic downturn in travel starting on March 20th. As of Tuesday, Ohio reported 704 positive cases of coronavirus, 182 hospitalizations (75 people in ICU) and 10 deaths. Keep up the good work, Ohio. You can do this.
This article appears in Mar 25-31, 2020.
Here in Williams County, folks are NOT traveling. The fact is that it is rural. There are only 4 or 5 grocery stores in the entire county if you include Walmart…and Walmart is directly across the street from one of the others. If you saw our streets right now, they are abandoned. The data used for this study sure does not seem accurate.
Every family dollar or dollar general is packed. Grocery stores and Walmart are busy plus the pharmacies. People are out plus most of the jobs here in Williams county are deemed essential so there’s that..
none of the non-essential factories are closed-they are still up and running. people traveling the tri-state area to and from work. all other counties must respect the “order”
if you question “essential” look at the federal CISA list. People expect to go to the store and buy everything they want, not just what they need, then second guess the decisions made as to what is essential and what is not. Tri State EO pretty much have followed the CISA list to the letter. https://www.cisa.gov/publication/guidance-essential-critical-infrastructure-workforce
Not everyone carries their phone enough to ensure perfect tracking of all individuals. This is why they will be mandating a digital ID mark or rfid chip with vaccine information for every person.
Do you have enough tin foil for when you need a new hat?
Can you please just STFU of even ONE goddam day?
Sossodd, where can you even buy tin foil these days? All they have is aluminum and I dont mess with aluminum. Aluminum is the cause of many health problems. That’s why they use it in the chemtrails and vaccines.