Coronavirus (political)

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Originally Posted by nonniey

Yes New York was an early epicenter but it was State Government policy (Corrupt policy at that - financial interests were involved) that caused the death rate to be so much higher than the norm.

What I don't get is the need to defend the Governors (New York, New Jersey, Michigan etc) that screwed up their management of the COVID crisis while attacking those that didn't like Florida (events could change this - Maybe New York, New Jersey and Michigan are now handling it well while Florida is now screwing it up - time will tell - remember last year the press was praising those states while condemning Florida they got that wrong then).

What I dont get is people praising those who down played Covid in an effort to minimize the financial hit.

To each their own though. I think my gov (Maryland) did a good job. Closed schools, mask mandate, did a lock down. Wish he didnt get skunked on spending millions on covid tests from Korea that ended up being junk. Wish he didnt try and cut off fed unemployment money.

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Yet for much of the past year, some experts have quietly advanced a counterargument: that economic activity is mainly affected by the rising and falling severity of the pandemic itself — not the relative strictness of the measures implemented to mitigate it. In fact, these experts argued, nonpharmaceutical interventions, or NPIs — a set of 20 government responses such as business closures, mask mandates and stay-at-home advisories that Oxford University rates according to stringency — can have an economic upside. The more the virus seems to be under control, the more eager people will be to participate in the economy.

Last week, this argument got a boost with the publication of a new report by economists at the University of California, Los Angeles. According to the latest quarterly UCLA Anderson Forecast, not only did big states with more stringent COVID measures end 2020 with fewer infections per capita, they also tended to post better economic growth numbers last year than states with fewer restrictions.

In other words, California’s economy actually fared better than Florida’s.

Yahoo News spoke with economist Jerry Nickelsburg, the director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, to find out more.

https://news.yahoo.com/lockdown-stat...153025163.html