People seem addicted to comparing numbers at a point in time and drawing conclusions, not considering whether they are changing at different rates, not to menti

People seem addicted to comparing numbers at a point in time and drawing conclusions, not considering whether they are changing at different rates, not to mention the derivative of the rate of change. Why would the ratio of, say, cases in NY vs Oklahoma vs. Japan stay constant? Just because? Clean living? I don't have expertise or authoritative predictions, I'm just saying that graphs are all over the place and practically everywhere has historical data with a different shape, and the end state/equilibrium is not know, except apparently, tentatively, for China and South Korea.