Facts vs beliefs: and a general FYI

Ignoring number of tests and number of positives it makes much more sense to just report the percentage of people tested that were positive. You could do 100,000 tests and get 13,000 positives which looks (is) bad or you could keep the reported positives down by decreasing tests 1000 tests "only" 130 positive ...actually no difference

Percentage positive of Northerners vs. Floridians ....

MA .....2.2%
NH .....1.9%
CT.......0.8%
ME......0.8%
NJ.......1.4%
NY.......1.2%
RI........3.8%
VT........0.8%

...and Florida....18.1% of all tests done over the last week are positive not counting today with 11,466 more new positive cases