Covid Grades

[jmt6762]

No Surprise.Red States scored high and Blue scored low....NJ the worst in the nation

The states that FAILED to protect people from COVID

New York, California, New Jersey and Illinois were panned for their pandemic performance after bringing in draconian measures to shut their citizens in their homes.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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No Surprise.

No surprise given the authors...

 

[HALL85]

No surprise given the authors...

National Bureau of Economic Research?

 

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National Bureau of Economic Research?

Stephen Moore and Phil Kerpen.

 

[jmt6762]

Stephen Moore and Phil Kerpen.

Truth hurt? Read the paper. All the data and facts are there.

 

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Truth hurt? Read the paper. All the data and facts are there.

I read it. It’s a pretty weak paper if you approach the topic honestly.

 

[HALL85]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bureau_of_Economic_Research

 

[jmt6762]

I read it. It’s a pretty weak paper if you approach the topic honestly.

How? Provide specifics

 

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How? Provide specifics

No actual analysis there.

I think any reasonable assessment of Covid lockdowns would take into consideration what happened after that first wave hit for example. NJ and NY were the only states that Covid really hit before we even had a test available. Very disingenuous to compare results to date to states that did not experience that. They could have even compared a time per since the rollout of the vaccine to see how states did since then.

Rating schools by percentage that were in person is neat and all, but then what?
Test scores? Graduation rates? Anything to actually have an opinion on the outcome there?

They compared the subsequent economic impacts with Q4 2019 as a baseline only. Why? Why not try to annualize 2019 to remove the seasonality which would impact each state differently?

It blamed the excess mortality in states where non-covid deaths were increased and blamed lockdowns for causing increased drug and alcohol deaths but didn't actually support if that were true of not... and those excess deaths were in states with fewer restrictions if any. Contradicting the premise.

I could go on, but hopefully you get the point.

 

[ed odowd]

How dare these authors question the MSM narrative.of NY and Calf great and Florida awful.Some people have no respect.

 

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How dare these authors question the MSM narrative.of NY and Calf great and Florida awful.Some people have no respect.

Always question the narrative, just don't pretend someone like Stephen Moore isn't pushing his own.

 

[PiratePride]

No surprise given the authors...

So if the NY Times or WAPO came out with that report.... how would you react? It seems they used the correct metrics to measure..... Murphy in NJ is lucky indeed to still be governor. His heavy handed way of dealing with covid unnecessarily cost lives, jobs and negatively impacted education. He failed all three metrics tests and has gotten away with it.

 

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So if the NY Times or WAPO came out with that report.... how would you react?

I'd approach it the same way and ask if the approach made sense. I did that plenty of times with NYtimes reporting on Covid when they discussed cases regarding the trends of the virus instead of looking at positivity rates and hospitalizations as indicators.

 

[jmt6762]

So if the NY Times or WAPO came out with that report.... how would you react? It seems they used the correct metrics to measure..... Murphy in NJ is lucky indeed to still be governor. His heavy handed way of dealing with covid unnecessarily cost lives, jobs and negatively impacted education. He failed all three metrics tests and has gotten away with it.

Exactly. And its these metrics, among others that caused mass migration to states at the top of the list from the states at the bottom.