FLORIDA AND NEW YORK COVID DATA PROVE LOCKDOWNS MADE NO SENSE

Outkick.com ^ | 1 Mar, 2021 | CLAY TRAVIS

[MtnClimber]

Today is the first day of March, which means we now essentially have a full year of COVID data from the four largest states in the country: California, Texas, Florida and New York. Thanks to the fact that we have federalism in this country, we can look at the factual COVID data and begin to answer a big question: did COVID lockdowns make any sense at all? And also, how do we assess the overall performance of governors in this country?

Regardless of your politics, the best state leadership would have done two things during COVID: limit deaths and keep people employed.

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And the results just may stun you.

For much of the past year, the media told you that New York governor Andrew Cuomo was the political hero of the COVID outbreak and that Florida governor Ron DeSantis was the political villain. This narrative began back in March of last year and has proven to be incredibly durable, carrying all the way into 2021.

Except the data tells us the exact opposite is true: no big state governor in the country has done a better job than Florida’s Ron DeSantis and no big state governor has done a worse job than New York’s Andrew Cuomo.

Yet tens of millions of people in this country believe the exact opposite.

How did this happen?

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Let me repeat this: New York, if it were a country, would have the worst COVID death rate in the entire world. The objective data is clear. Far from being a COVID hero, Governor Andrew Cuomo is probably the worst performing elected official in the entire world when it comes to dealing with COVID.

[HotHunt]

Cuomo and Newsom are threats to Kamel-Toe in the 2024 democRAT presidential election.

What better time than now to get rid of them both?

[Old Grumpy]

>>Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait. You mean Florida Man had it right all along?<<

Well, ONE SPECIFIC Florida man did!

[walkingdead]

My family did exactly the opposite of yours, we went about our life unchanged and none of us got covid.

Viruses are gonna virus, no matter what we do.

I say we return to the old ways, the ways we were brought up in, cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze and wash your hands. We used to call this “common curtesy”. Best part of all, we didn’t destroy our economy and way of life every cold season.

[zeestephen]

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