You have Iowa, Hawaii and San Diego news outlets within the first few, 2, 3 and 3 and a half months ago. Between digital, television and print media, we have thousands of outlets reporting coronavirus numbers for hundreds of cities for every month, week and day. Over a long enough time you're obviously going to have the same numbers repeat, especially covering that many cities, that often. And that's just the US. They're going to appear way more frequently if we're taking into account the entire spherical earth.
This does seem most likely to me. We know local news parrots the AP and can't be trusted, but this would take it to the next level. Nice plug for sphere earth. ;)
You have Iowa, Hawaii and San Diego news outlets within the first few, 2, 3 and 3 and a half months ago. Between digital, television and print media, we have thousands of outlets reporting coronavirus numbers for hundreds of cities for every month, week and day. Over a long enough time you're obviously going to have the same numbers repeat, especially covering that many cities, that often. And that's just the US. They're going to appear way more frequently if we're taking into account the entire spherical earth.
This does seem most likely to me. We know local news parrots the AP and can't be trusted, but this would take it to the next level. Nice plug for sphere earth. ;)