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We are now nearly one year from the dark days when the coronavirus first struck these shores.
Have not we discovered anything about how to fight this infection without slamming shut our economy? Yes. Therefore, in the hopes that these errors of federal government are remedied, I provide some reputable truths about how to keep us safe from the virus:
No. 1: Yes, COVID-19 is a really hazardous disease for those over the age of 70 and for those who are badly overweight or with preexisting health issues. For young and healthy people, the threats remain small.
No. 2: Lockdowns have had extremely minimal efficacy in reducing death rates from the infection. I just recently took a look at the connection in between the stringency of organization lockdowns in states and their corresponding death rates.
No. 3: The factor most associated with death rates from the infection is the population density of an area. Pandemics are primarily urban illness. If you want to minimize your health threats, leave the big cities like Chicago or New York City.
No. 4: The only statistically significant impact of lockdowns is SEVERE and possibly long-lasting damage to the local and state services and employees. Another way to put this is lockdowns do not flatten the curve of the infection, however they do flatten the economy and put countless Americans in long unemployment lines.
No. 5: Almost all of the severe lockdowns are in blue states with Democratic guvs, and these are the states with extremely high unemployment rates. Here are the joblessness rates in blue states with severe lockdowns: New Jersey 10%, Nevada 10.1%, New York 8.4%, Connecticut 8.4%, and California 8.2%. These blue-state unemployment rates are almost two times as high as the rates in states that have very little or no lockdowns: Nebraska 3.1%, South Dakota 3.5%, Iowa 3.6%, Utah 4.3%, and Alabama 4.4%.
No. 6: The blue states of America, led by Democratic guvs and mayors, have tragically turned a health crisis into a recession.
My New Year’s dream is that Democratic governors stop the suffering of soup lines and joblessness lines and small-business bankruptcies and open their shops, dining establishments, shopping mall and schools– now.
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Stephen Moore is co-founder of the Committee to Let Loose Success and a member of President Trump’s Economic Healing Job Force.
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