Grading the Governors: Who Locked Down and Who Opened?

Low-restricted South Dakota, Oklahoma, Florida, Nebraska, Florida and others should have far surpassed locked down states in all-cause deaths.

States doing worse than South Dakota that locked down harder included New Jersey, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, California, New York, Maryland, and a dozen others.

Locked down states should have had far fewer total lives lost than those open, and they did not.

The seventeen least restricted states were Republican-led, as were 22 of the first 23 states.

You could not look at a blank chart of states' COVID-19 performance and pick out the tightly restricted versus looser states.

These governors all had state mandates at one point or another.

These governors presided over fewer restrictions and few of their states ever broke the top ten in deaths per capita.

https://brownstone.org/articles/grading-the-governors-who-locked-down-and-who-opened/