The best evidence in support of this WSJ article is what millions of people actually did. Ignore the pontificators and Internet trolls. Americans moved TO red states and AWAY from blue states. This trend existed pre-Covid, but really accelerated during Covid. Florida has gained over a million residents. Texas continues to boom as does Tennessee and the Carolinas. New York, Illinois, New Jersey lost citizens. California is losing population for the first time since 1850. This movement of Americans is irrefutable.
Imagine needing Clay Travis to tell you that not having any business closures is better for the economy than taking measures to reduce virus positives/deaths.
How dare he quote that right wing rag of a publication known as the Wall Street Journal. They have no integrity. Utter trash. I only get my news from the Progressive or Mother Jones.
As of October 2022, Mississippi had the highest COVID death rate in the U.S., with 436 deaths per 100,000 population. Vermont had the lowest death rate.
If you are willing to sacrifice your parents and grandparents for your freedom to be unvaccinated and maskless in public, then I don't really think we are having a debate.
Since widespread vaccine rollout, red states have exclusively dominated the COVID death tables.
Their economic success didn't even need to come with a cost, but it did thanks to anti-vaxxers.
Look, you can force grandma to die for the economy and then celebrate that, but most of us are going to think you're a psychopathic a-hole. It's pretty simple.
Travis's tweet doesn't reflect what the article says. The article emphasizes more that lots of well-paid people who suddenly became remote workers in 2020 moved from red states to blue states for cost of living & quality of life issues. It does mention the willingness to reopen schools as part of the attraction, but the emphasis is not as much on covid policies as Travis's tweet implies.
Travis's tweet doesn't reflect what the article says. The article emphasizes more that lots of well-paid people who suddenly became remote workers in 2020 moved from red states to blue states for cost of living & quality of life issues. It does mention the willingness to reopen schools as part of the attraction, but the emphasis is not as much on covid policies as Travis's tweet implies.
Well all the COVID-deniers can due to support their position is... lie and misrepresent. Unsurprising.
Hard to claim a "winner" here. In hindsight, not forcing thousands of small business owners into bankruptcy would be my choice.
Since the average age of death with COVID is higher than life expectancy the Barrington declaration - with no mandates and no lockdowns - clearly would have been best.
If you are willing to sacrifice your parents and grandparents for your freedom to be unvaccinated and maskless in public, then I don't really think we are having a debate.
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My parents are in their 80s and barely leave the house anyway. They hardly noticed the lockdown. They chose to celebrate Christmas alone. See how that works? They took responsible for themselves, assessed risks, and decided for themselves how much risk they would accept. No government required.
Anyone read the report? It said more jobs opened in those states. But that’s literally because more republicans moved to republican states from California, New York, etc. So of course more jobs would open, doesn’t mean people are taking them though since most are service/manual jobs that are highly under staffed at the moment, especially in smaller “red” states.
