If AZ officials expect school districts to abide by these so-called benchmarks, the least you could deign yourselves to do is to give us up-to-date information! As of today, your dashboard says that Cochise county has not met the 2nd benchmark. BUT, the last data point is from JULY 19TH! Today is the 8th of August - just under 3 weeks later. What the heck?!! How dare anyone in AZ leadership expect that we make decisions based on old/bad data like this?! Bologna like this is part of the problem with people not trusting Government leadership. You aren’t giving us honest, accurate, or current data! If you want people to comply with the rules you have to stop lying to them, and this is basically what you’re doing. This is a lie by omission. Cochise county (and any other county in the state for that matter) could actually be better off than what your so-called dashboard shows, but you aren’t giving us that information. If this is the best you guys can do, then your best is absolutely NOT good enough. Do better!!
On top of that, I read in a news article that a lot of COVID-19 data is presented by the dates that the information (positive tests, diagnoses, and deaths) were reported rather than when they actually occurred. If this is true, then these graphs should show when these events happened, NOT when they were reported. Simply telling the public when events were reported does not give us (or Government leadership) an accurate picture of what is actually happening. Leadership should not be making rules or guidance based on such flawed data, and the public cannot reasonably be asked to trust the authorities when the authorities themselves are basing guidance and decisions on bad (and old) data.