It's become hard to follow Covid levels, and I've got a bunch of travel coming up over the next few months (NC, LA, MA, and MO), so I put together this bot that publishes state-by-state Covid levels, as tracked in wastewater. It posts once weekly, Saturday, which is when the CDC updates their numbers.
I basically just made this for me, but perhaps others might find it useful.
https://botsin.space/@covid_wastewater/113059650109973797
Very High: AL, AR, CA, CO, DE, FL, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MN, MO, NC, NH, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, UT, WA, WI, WY High: AK, CT, DC, GA, HI, IL, MA, ME, MS, MT, NE, NJ, NM, TX, VA, VT, WV Low: MI No Data: AZ, GU, ND, PR, VI
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An audio show that can only be played in an Apple player on an Apple device is not a podcast.
An audio show that can only be played in Spotify is not a podcast.
Repeat ad nauseam for any other proprietary audio show platforms.
A #podcast is an #RSS feed with enclosures of audio files which are playable across the whole ecosystem of podcast players.
Any reporter who reports on exclusive audio shows and calls them “podcasts” are doing a grave disservice to their audience.