WSJ: Red states COVID policies trounced blue state COVID policies

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Think about that. Mind blowen.

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And yet those bloggers and baristas have to carry most of the red states, which is even more amazing when you consider how hard it must be for those work-from-home baristas to make a living at all.

Okay how about just even forget about Red vs Blue and individual state recoveries etc.

If I was in a red state that probably erred on the side of "this isn't the end of mankind we don't need to stop people working and "shut down" wouldn't you have to right to be pretty f--ked off with near 10% inflation at the moment? Seriously we all know why we have this right? The fed printed 2.3 trillion dollars and added it to the economy which we are paying for now, and they did because of an ill-thought out, panicked response to covid. There is no way in hell anyone can justify that 4-5 month period of idiotic lockdowns. Why? Because for the last year while case rates have rollercoasted up and down and at points topped the period when we did this, people were back at work, going out and spending money and mankind didn't perish then either.

I got to say in all honesty I would not blame anyone in the states that didn't contribute to this lunacy for being insanely p!ssed off right now. I fact, I think they shouldn't have to be part of this hellish inflation at all - it isn't their fault in any way.

Inflation is a fact all over the world now. Often worse than here. And in most cases their economies are doing worse than ours.

I'm not disputing this on any level. The question is why. And the big difference is that many countries aren't governed under state legislature which means that what the government says goes. That was/is not the case here where these choices were made on a state by state level. So the question remains - should Florida (for example) have to pay by way of this inflation?

You miss my point. Government policies have had only a limited role in causing inflation. Most other countries did not have a huge stimulus effort like the U.S, did but they still have bad inflation. We are not a socialist country. The government does not own and run our businesses. It does not run our free market. If container ships pile up at our ports or airlines lack pilots, that is the result of decisions made by business executives. Who then run to the government wanting help.

As for the cost of shutting down, keep in mind tbat covid, in a little more than two years, has killed more than twice as many Americans as WWII did from 1941-'45.

The government does not run our businesses? Does not run our free market? My dude - are you kidding me? Do you really believe this?

Out of the 2.3 trillion in relief, 850 billion went to small businesses and people - where do you think the rest went? Either way this point is moot - the currency of the United States of America is the US Dollar and the government introduced 2.2 trillion more of them into the open market economy. That amount of money devalues everything existing that is relative to the dollar (every good and service) in this country. Those goods and services need to recapture their relative worth which is what inflation fundamentally is. Jesus Christ it's such a fundamentally simple concept?

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It is also a simple concept that, as I said, high inflation is world wide. Just as high as ours. Please explain why the factors causing their inflation are not factors here. That it is only the stimulus that has caused ours.

Those cheaper cost of living existed pre pandemic yet people, myself included, have left blue states like California for red states. Not to mention, Florida which has been a popular destination does not have a low cost of living.

The reason is overall policies in places in California are making them unlivable. I got sick of the continuing pandemic restrictions in California and the fact the people could not give up the pandemic measures in general. Then you have much higher taxes yet you can't see where they go to because homeless are continuing to pile up and crime is rising. The list could go on. But at the end of the day the left has chosen to follow this fantasy land ideology that has run straight into the brick wall of reality, yet they just continue to butt their heads up against the wall and it has made these progressive states unlivable. This trend will continue until there is some awakening in the blue states. I don't think this is coming anytime soon because all the reasonable people in blue states continue to leave.