LA Times Op-Ed: 'The Evidence Is Clear'...the Lockdowns Didn't Trash the Economy

Townhall.com ^ | May 20, 2021 | Matt Vespa

[Starcitizen]

1/3 of small businesses won’t survive, but by golly the economy isn’t trashed? How’s the view up their la times?
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In some regions, it was much higher than 1/3 failing.

But there are 8.1 million unfilled menial labor jobs open. Former small business owners, you know what to do. You formerly ran a small business, you can now run the fry station at McDonald’s.

[Political Junkie Too]

Gaslighting by the LAAP-dog media.

-PJ

[Bob434]

the sick thing is- now that places are opening, hiring, in desperation, more will go back to work and biden will get credit for a ‘booming jobs force’ by the msm

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

The lockdown didn’t trash the economy?

Right. That is why we just added $5 trillion to the national debt since March 2020, because the economy was doing so good.

Typical Orwellian doublespeak. Up is down. It is so nice having your own propaganda wing, and a monopoly at that.

[Zathras]

Venice, CA
Destroyed by lockdown and the takeover by homeless.

[lepton]

The UCLA researchers, meanwhile, estimated that reductions in movement resulting from stay-at-home orders reduced transmission in the hardest-hit communities, such as Seattle, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles by 50% or more.

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A May 2020 study (before we had either much data at all, or contrasting policies): “Linking social distancing behavior with an epidemic *model*, we estimate...”