More than two months ago, President Joe Biden, using a slur a Republican could never get away with, criticized the decisions by red state governors to lift mask-wearing mandates and reopen.
On March 2, Texas Gov. Greg Abbot and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, both Republicans, not only lifted their states' mask rules, they also killed business capacity limits.
So it's part of their routine preening to insult the inhabitants of the red states, and those who think similarly but are behind the blue state wall.
In between, the state went through some tough times.
Now let's compare these numbers to those in a mandated self-suffocation state such as, say, California, where for many mask-wearing is an opening for virtue signaling, and which was praised as a model showing how to beat the coronavirus before the virus spread like one of the state's predatory wildfires.
The seven-day average for daily cases was about 44,000 a few days before Christmas, an all-time high in Gov. Gavin Newsom's workers' paradise, while the running average for daily deaths peaked at 565 in late January.
The policymaking lesson is that "Neanderthal thinking" performed no worse, and in some cases better, than the "Enlightened" thinking that gave us the masked-up, locked-down states.
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/05/11/when-will-biden-apologize-for-his-neanderthal-smear/
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