The results are in-and they overwhelmingly vindicate the free states over the authoritarian experiments.
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.
Reveal that many free states have returned to nearly their pre-pandemic unemployment rates-while lockdown states dominate the wrong end of the list.
Hands-off states such as South Dakota, Utah, Nebraska, and New Hampshire top the list with unemployment rates hovering around a stellar 3 percent.
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.
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.
As famed economist Thomas Sowell said, in complex issues of public policy "There are no solutions, there are only tradeoffs." There was never an easy answer to the COVID pandemic, but the economic, health, and social outcomes of free states all suggest that they made the right call in rejecting the authoritarian instinct embraced by too many of their neighbors.
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Free States Faring Far Better Than Lockdown States in One Huge Way, New Data Show
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