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Yes, as other commented, Facebook is removing your posts as violating its community standards. They are considering it "spam". I have "disagreed with this decision", but I am confident no human being has or will laid eyes on the removal process. It's all done via magical algorithms.

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Don’t know why or if you’re aware but when you click on the daily report (from where it shows up on my timeline in FB) it says the link goes against community standards. If I try to find it on your page directly, it’s not there at all. 😒 hoping FB just made a mistake. Thanks for all you do.

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FYI - Facebook is flagging any of my posts with your link as spam...

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When I tried to share the 7/13 daily digest, I received a message from Facebook just now saying that "some Facebook users" had reported the content as abusive. I also checked and discovered that Facebook had taken down a digest that I had shared several days ago (with no notice to me.)

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A friend who tried to share a link told me that he got a FB message that the posts had been reported as “abusive”. Another friend, who works in social media marketing (and whom I had not told about the “abusive” message my other friend got) said this blocking is consistent with a coordinated effort to have the posts banned from Facebook.

I don’t know if it will do any good, but I encourage others to report, however they can, this problem to Facebook.

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It appears FB has blocked your url. 🙄

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Looking at your comments and the information I am getting from some other sites I reference I wonder how much of the spread in rural areas is due to agriculture, mainly migrant farm workers. I see that some of the characteristics of the current growth in cases are: "non-Georgia Resident" being one of the fastest growing "counties" on the DPH data; cases concentrate in 18-40 year old people; and that Georgia is at peak harvest for many of its key crops, such as peaches, onions, blueberries, melons, and others. I have seen over the past couple of weeks that a lot of the growth in GA counties was in central GA (peaches), Lowndes Co (I understand is the center of the blueberry industry), and Toombs Co. (Vidalia) onions. Just a deduction on my part based on what I see and my knowledge of my home state but we don't seem to see too many web sites or news reports trying to focus on the "why" of these outbreaks, which seem to be concentrate in certain areas/demographics and not others. To me agriculture, at least in GA could be a reason.

Anecdote: I also live in NE TN and back in early June our major strawberry producer had to shut down for two weeks just as harvest began as his entire crew of mainly migrant workers tested positive (and mainly asymptomatic, I think). By the time they all recovered and came back he had lost most of his crop.

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Just needed to tell you, Dr. Schmidtke, that I went into a tailspin when I read that you were leaving Georgia for Kansas.And I am so very relieved that you plan to continue posting your reports three days a week. I wish you the best in your move, and I hope you find a position where you are fully-funded to produce these insightful reports for many states and regions, not just Georgia and not just in the United States. and free to do whatever research you are called to study. I am grateful for your time and analysis. And remember, Georgia still needs you!

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I also had a post removed for being spam. A post in which I reported an abbreviated version of the report and attached the report. Why is this considered spam I wonder. Well I see a whole lot of bs on face book that I shall be reporting. I hate Zucker

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Your statement is misleading that we do not have more cases because we are testing more. It is not an either/or. We have more cases because we are testing more (as shown by the almost linear direct correlation between cases and testing) AND lately the infection rate has increased. You should graph the % pos/daily testing rate to understand better the impact as the testing is supposed to be a sampling of the population, albeit the sampling will be skewed more positive than in the population because people are getting tested that think they have it or have been exposed. I look forward to reading more of your newsletters. This is the first I have reviewed. I have only been analyzing data from covidtracking.com as it shows the %hosp and %icu and %vent numbers for some states. I want to combine data sources but do not have the time to dedicate since I am luckily still able to work full time.

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Thank you for the work you are doing to help explain the data. Do you have any insight as to why the current test results are taking up to 14 days (in some cases) to be processed? And, with the increase in testing that was encouraged in May, shouldn't this have given labs time to increase man or machine-power? The "second wave" was predicted after shelter-in-place expired. It seems our state has not improved upon things learned in March and April. Thanks Again!

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