I read a bunch of these back and forth messages and wondered what was up. Which lead me to
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#compare-trends_newcasesper100k and comparing FL and PA.
I think it's a fair question about what's happened in PA over the course of November. Which isn't a random period, but the most recent period. By all accounts, PA has been doing things more rationally than FL, but PA is trending worse faster than FL in the most recent time period. The earlier periods show PA was trending better and now it's trending worse.
This doesn't mean PA should adapt FL's plan, which by reports seems more laissez faire. Plus FL is tending worse too, just slower than PA is trending worse. But, it does raise questions about why is PA tending so poorly now when it had been trending so much better before. Knowing this would help others from falling into the same predicament.
I didn't see a comparison between the PA and FL percent positive that I was sure used the same calculation. But, it's trend would provide some insight too.