Although the national and state figures bear watching, it's hard to mentally use that data to inform local situations. The constant focus on the negative really messes with the mind and isn't helpful in trying to make the best decisions for my family and how navigate life during this time. I live in DuPage county IL, a collar county of Chicago. One of the "hard hit" counties on the IL maps. We still have a large orange dot on the state of IL dashboard map, meaning we are one of the worse off. But when I go to the Dupage County dashboard it really paints a different picture. Out of our counties population of 922,921, there have been 9,209 confirmed cases this year (.9%) and 470 deaths (.05%). As of today, our counties 7 day rolling average for hospital admissions is .1 a day. None of that takes away from how infectious it is, or what is happening nationwide, but it was eye opening and really helps informing decisions like feeling better about having kids go to school in the fall.