Fauci was wrong.
New information shows the US states with the least stringent lockdowns have fared better than the authoritarian states run by tyrannical leftists.
The map shows how Florida, with all of its seniors, has fared better than New York and California.
And this was not just the case in America.
In Europe Sweden was criticized for leaving its economy open during the pandemic. Yet Sweden fared better than its European colleagues and did not ruin its economy.
Via Rand Paul.
Sweden had 7.7% more deaths in 2020 than its average for the preceding four years. Countries that opted for several periods of strict lockdowns, such as Spain and Belgium, had so-called excess mortality of 18.1% and 16.2% respectively.https://t.co/qdnKj3lK1i
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 29, 2021
Via the Foundation for Economic Education:
The results are in—and they overwhelmingly vindicate the free states over the authoritarian experiments. First, we saw that states with the harshest restrictions didn’t necessarily achieve the best COVID-19 death outcomes. Florida has fared far better than New York and New Jersey, for example, and multiple studies have found no correlation between lockdown stringency and death rates.
Yet lockdowns have come at an enormous economic and human cost. We’ve seen mental health problems and child suicide spikes, an increase in domestic violence, an uptick in drug overdoses, and much, much more. And, of course, the economic toll of shutting down businesses and criminalizing “non-essential” livelihoods has been devastating.
The national unemployment rate was a poor if not disastrous 6.2 percent in February. Yet the just-released state-level unemployment rates for last month show that the devastation hasn’t been equal across the board. New Labor Department data reveal that many free states have returned to nearly their pre-pandemic unemployment rates—while lockdown states dominate the wrong end of the list.
State unemployment data for February 2021 is out! Some parts of the country are at full employment while others are in deep crisis.
Lowest unemployment:
South Dakota 2.9%
Utah 3%
Nebraska 3.1%
Highest unemployment:
Hawaii 9.2%
— Daniel Di Martino
(@DanielDiMartino) March 29, 2021
Hands-off states such as South Dakota, Utah, Nebraska, and New Hampshire top the list with unemployment rates hovering around a stellar 3 percent. States that received enormous flak for eschewing drastic lockdowns like Georgia and Florida both rank in the top 20. Perhaps the only obvious outlier is Texas, which ranks poorly with an unemployment rate of 6.9 percent—but, then again, Governor Greg Abbott only rolled back the remaining restrictions in the Lone Star state earlier this month.
Meanwhile, the worst 10 states, with unemployment rates from 7 to 9 percent, include lockdown-happy localities like New York, New Jersey, California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, D.C., and Rhode Island.
There is a clear trend here. Free states have largely avoided the labor market carnage associated with the COVID pandemic, while lockdown states have wrought higher unemployment levels—without guaranteeing better pandemic health outcomes.
"The results are in—and they overwhelmingly vindicate the free states over the authoritarian experiments…Florida has fared far better than NY and NJ…multiple studies have found no correlation between lockdown stringency and death rates." @brad_polumbo https://t.co/2yfEvDkXJE
— Jack Hunter (@jackhunter74) March 29, 2021
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