Texas Ended Lockdowns and Mask Mandates. Now Locked-Down States Are Where Covid Is Growing Most
April 22nd, 2021Via: Mises:
By the logic of lockdown advocates, states with harsh lockdowns should have far fewer cases and less growth in cases.
This, however, is most certainly not the case. In New Jersey, for example, where lockdowns have been long and harsh, case growth is nearly four times what it is in Texas. And then there are Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Maine, and New York, all of which have new case growth rates of more than double what’s going on Texas.
Indeed, the only state with notably lax covid policies that’s in the top ten of case growth is Florida, which nonetheless is experiencing growth rates that are slower than in states run by lockdown fetishists like Andrew Cuomo and Phil Murphy.
Moreover, Florida’s covid-19 overall outbreak has been far less deadly than those in the states that embraced lockdowns long and hard. New Jersey, for example, has the worst covid death rate in the nation at 2,838 per million as of April 20. Right behind are New York and Massachusetts with total deaths per million at 2,672 and 2,537, respectively.
Florida, on the other hand, is twenty-eighth in the nation in terms of covid deaths, at 1,608. Texas has total deaths per million at 1,721.
Thank Gawd I live in Texas where the lockdown B.S. has lifted some, although I’m still annoyed about the face diaper. Texas Governor Abbott has opened up everything 100%, but businesses can still require masks if they so choose. I admit I was a bit of a coward before as I use to wear a bandana around my neck but not pull it up over my face unless someone was having a real cow about it, but now that the governor has “opened up” I go completely maskless, and push back at businesses that ask me to wear a mask. I keep hoping this idiocy will lessen, but I still see about 90% plus people continue to mask.
New York is mostly open these days. 5 days a week in person school for the kids in many places. Restaurants, bars are open. Everyone out and about. Lots of mask wearing but people are out.