TC Talks wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 4:28 am
I wouldn't measure anything based on compliance in Michigan.
Good call. Because a new study found virtually no correlation whatsoever between government regulation and Covid death rates.
We now compete with Florida for stupid...
Interesting you call out Florida, as they scored in the Top 6 best states for handling Covid.
A new study has graded states by how well they handled the coronavirus pandemic and its subsequent restrictions and lockdowns, showing a stark contrast between liberal and conservative states. The Committee To Unleash Prosperity study compared state performance on metrics including the economy, education, and mortality from the virus, and examined how states and their respective governments handled the pandemic response.
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New York, California, New Jersey and Illinois were among the worst in dealing with the coronavirus, performing "poorly on every measure," the report said. These states "had high age-adjusted death rates; they had high unemployment and significant GDP losses, and they kept their schools shut down much longer than almost all other states," the report added.
States like Utah, Nebraska, Vermont, Montana, South Dakota and Florida — all governed by Republicans — received the highest scores in the study, first through sixth, respectively. In fact, 13 of the top 15 states in the study are governed by Republicans. (Montana had a Democratic governor until the 2020 election.)
The study also found no correlation in those states that enacted stringent travel, vocation and dining restrictions with lower death totals.
"The study verifies other studies which have found that locking down businesses, stores, churches, schools, and restaurants had almost no impact on health outcomes across states," the report determined. "States with strict lockdowns had virtually no better performance in COVID death rates than states that remained mostly open for business."
https://news.yahoo.com/california-york- ... 39651.html
Translation: TC Talks is a dumbass. But hey, keep believing in your big government's failed Covid policies. It is people with minds like YOURS that made this pandemic way worse than it needed to be. Hope you're happy.