Authoritarian governors have been justifying the terrible physical, emotional, and financial burdens their lockdowns have caused by claiming they save lives. But the data proves otherwise.
On 23 April, Blacklist News published the article: “Texas Ended Lockdowns and Mask Mandates. Now Locked-Down States are Where COVID is Growing Most.” Commenting on empirical CDC data, the website writes:
“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.”
Texas vs. Michigan
On 10 March, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced no more mask mandates, and all businesses across the state could reopen.
The avalanche of criticism from mainstream media began immediately. Governor Gavin Newsom of California, who was the first in the U.S. to lock down his state by “Executive Order,” said the Texas reopening was “absolutely reckless.”
The former Congressman from Texas who bombed out of the 2020 race for the White House, Democrat Beto O’Rourke, called the loosening of lockdown restrictions a “cult of death.”
And not to be outdone in the hysteric insistence on keeping lockdowns intact, Vanity Fair (a.k.a. Vanity UnFair) published the article: “Republican Governors Celebrate COVID Anniversary with Bold Plan to Kill Another 500,000 Americans.”
To illustrate the example of the death of journalism and one-side reporting, Bess Levin of Vanity Fair, noting that Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves also lifted the lockdown mandates, called them “dumbasses who would rather score political points with the anti-mask, anti-science brigade than avoid extending the pandemic (and the country’s death toll) for who knows how long.”
Again, anyone who does not believe the Pressititute’s science and refuses to swallow the crap they are selling is a “dumbass.”
And what does the recent data show when comparing Texas, which has completely reopened, with Michigan, which still has a number of lockdown restrictions?
Presstitutes Lie, Numbers Don’t
According to The New York Times updated coronavirus case count published on 25 April, Texas is averaging 11 coronavirus cases per 100,000 compared to Michigan’s 54 per 100,000 (five times as many, as Texas and Michigan have the highest case count in the country).
A comparison of overall death rates shows the two states very close with Michigan suffering a small amount more.
Yet Blacklist News notes that in Michigan, “A variety of strict mask mandates and partial lockdowns continue. Restaurant capacity remains at 50 percent, and the state continues to issue edicts about how many people one is allowed to have over for dinner.”
New Jersey Blues & Florida Joy
The Garden State has been one of the five most-locked-down, according to BestLife.com. Yet, its coronavirus case count is the second-highest in the nation at 33 per 100,000 (three times higher than Texas).
When locked-down New Jersey is compared to Florida, the Sunshine State has about half the caseload even though Governor Ron DeSantis reopened bars, restaurants, beaches, and other major businesses back on 25 September. This, despite Florida having one of the highest percentages of elderly citizens who are most vulnerable to catching the virus.
The mortality rate in reopened Florida is 27 per 100,000 compared to locked-down New Jersey’s 34 per 100,000.
TRENDPOST: The New York Times quoted Florida Governor DeSantis, who said,
“You can live like a human being. You aren’t locked down. People aren’t miserable. President Biden’s new hope of getting Americans together to celebrate with their families on the Fourth of July? We’ve been doing that for over a year in Florida.”
The Times noted that “Florida’s death rate is no worse than the national average, and better than that of some other states that imposed more restrictions, despite its large numbers of retirees, young partyers and tourists. Caseloads and hospitalizations across most of the state are down.”
And the Blacklist News article states, “The only state with notably lax COVID policies that’s in the top ten of case growth is Florida, which nonetheless is experiencing [coronavirus] growth rates that are slower than in states run by lockdown fetishists like Andrew Cuomo and Phil Murphy.”
