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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 8045893" data-attributes="member: 72555">Numbers are starting to climb in Ottawa, Canada.  Diagnosed 30-40 per day in a metro area of 1.3 million or so, significantly up from the single-digits it was down to.Many of the new infections are from people breaking "stage 2" rules and having indoor parties.  We have since moved to "stage 3", which permits bars to reopen.Not a good trajectory right before school starts.It feels weird to complain about 30 cases/day.  But on a log scale that is -4.6 per capita, up from -5.2.Florida on the log scale is -3.3 per capita.  Texas etc is similar.(An exponential growth curve moves up a log scale at a relatively constant rate, so when dealing with pandemics it can illuminate differences better.)</blockquote>