Friday, April 23, 2021

Texas Ended Lockdowns and Mask Mandates. Now Locked-Down States Are Where Covid Is Growing Most

Other states have followed in Texas's wake, and Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia are now all states where covid restrictions range from weak to nonexistent.

Many of the states with the worst growth in covid cases-and the worst track records in overall death counts-have been states that have had some of the harshest lockdowns.

The failure of the lockdown narrative in this case has been so overwhelming that last week, when asked about the Texas situation, Anthony Fauci could only suggest a few unconvincing lines about how maybe Texans are voluntarily wearing masks and locking down more strenuously than people in other states.

Now, let's look at Michigan, where a variety of strict mask mandates and partial lockdowns continue.

In New Jersey, for example, where lockdowns have been long and harsh, case growth is nearly four times what it is in Texas.

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.

Lockdown advocates tried this for months after Georgia ended its stay-at-home order, although Georgia consistently performed better than many states that continued their lockdowns.

https://mises.org/wire/texas-ended-lockdowns-and-mask-mandates-now-locked-down-states-are-where-covid-growing-most 

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