From: johnny@invalid.net   
      
   By David Marcus   
   Published April 12, 2022   
      
   The numbers are in. As if there was much doubt about it, a new study   
   has revealed that some of our nation’s bluest big states underperformed   
   on COVID response compared to ruby red Florida and others. The number   
   crunching which combined deaths, economic harm, and educational impact,   
   was done by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, and it's a doozy.   
      
   At the very bottom of the list of states, to the surprise of absolutely   
   nobody who was paying attention, are New York and New Jersey. The   
   Empire State’s handsy disgraced and former governor Andrew Cuomo was   
   heralded as the leader the world needed on COVID just two years ago.   
      
   But according to the study his state, and others with widespread   
   lockdowns "had high age-adjusted death rates, they had high   
   unemployment and significant GDP losses, and they kept their schools   
   shut down much longer than almost all other states."   
      
   Meanwhile, as the nation continues to emerge from COVID, even in   
   Democrat run cities, Dr. Anthony Fauci, of all people, is telling   
   Americans it's time to assess their own personal risk of the virus. Dr.   
   Fauci, a man so risk averse he wouldn’t place a bet on the sun rising   
   in the East.   
      
   While it's great that Fauci and other leaders are finally coming around   
   to the idea of living with risk so as not to destroy the entire economy   
   and children’s education, what the study makes clear is that this   
   should have been our government’s attitude all along. It will not be   
   easy for former proponents of strict lockdown to accept this data, but   
   then again they were the ones insisting we "follow the science."   
      
   The plain, obvious fact of the matter is that states like Florida which   
   opened up as early as late April of 2020 never experienced the kind of   
   death and destruction that detractors of Gov. Ron DeSantis warned of.   
   It wasn’t "human sacrifice" as some in our COVID hysterical press put   
   it. It was a calculated risk and it paid off.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/covid-lockdowns-mandates-new-yor   
   -florida-david-marcus   
      
   Fauci was a fool that caused terrible damage to this country that will   
   take years to recover from.   
      
   It's now a fact you can't control the spread of a virus with lockdowns   
   and paper masks.   
      
   The Democrats took advantage of the virus by making it seem much worse   
   than it really was.  They used it to put another fool in office that is   
   now doing more damage to this country.   
      
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