The Three Nations of Covid and a Windbag Named Fauci

......................And folks, even the Virus Patrol hardliners don’t claim their lockdown orders are designed to prevent 3-day hospital stays by people who get an unusually stubborn case of the winter flu. This is about death prevention and that’s why they run the Chyron of Death across the CNN screen day and night.
But there is zero correlation:

• California: Heavy lockdown, 4.6 deaths per 100,000;
• Iowa: No lockdown, 4.3 deaths per 100,000;
• Texas: Light lockdown, 2.4 deaths per 100,000;
• Washington state: Heavy lockdown, 10.0 deaths per 100,000;
• Colorado: Inconsistent lockdown, 12.2 deaths per 100,000;
• Georgia: Late Lockdown now lifted, 10.0 deaths per 100,000;
• Maine: Heavy Lockdown, 3.8 deaths per 100,000;
• Massachusetts: Heavy Lockdown, 45.7 deaths per 100,000.

We call attention to Washington state, Maine and Massachusetts especially because even though they all have severe statewide lockdown regimes and their overall mortality rates very widely, from 3.8 per 100,000 in Maine to 45.7 per 100,000 in Massachusetts, they do share one thing in common. To wit, 40-60% of their Covid-fatalities have been in nursing homes.

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