[MinorityRepublican]

California locked down early and hard. Yet they had 60,000 COVID-19 deaths. In other words, you can’t really stop a virus until you develop a vaccine.

[lightman]

One of the Bloomberg pundits is pontificating that pandemic responses (masking, “social distancing”, and frequent vaccine “boosters”) may become PERMANENT.

https://summit.news/2021/03/25/bloomberg-op-ed-we-must-start-planning-for-a-permanent-pandemic/?utm_source=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicated

[FormerFRLurker]

California locked down early and hard. Yet they had 60,000 COVID-19 deaths

True. Adjust for population, though, and California drops down to #29 in COVID deaths per million, just below Washington DC. Statistics are a funny thing.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/