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Hecuba's daughter3/06/2021 10:12:31 pm PST

re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They are so reliable they fired and then arrested their IT specialist for publishing the real statistics. (I was out watching “WandaVision”)

Vindication for Ron DeSantis (Wall Street Journal, yesterday)

The media vilified him for rejecting harsh lockdowns. But Florida’s Covid-19 numbers are better than California’s or New York’s, and its economy thrives.

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They are ignoring of course New York was one of the first places hit, when no one knew what to do about the virus.

The article says Florida is in the middle of the pack on per capita deaths (according to Worldometer, that is correct, Florida ranks 27th). It ignores other states which have lower rates which imposed mask orders (such as Wyoming and Hawai’i, which score better than Florida, or those which did not such as North and South Dakota, which score far worse than Florida). They also ignore cities (higher rate) over rural areas (lower rate).

Certainly states in the northeast were hit much harder when they were the first victims of the initial wave from Europe and Trump and his CDC were useless in providing guidance. By the time COVID really hit Florida, there was more information on how best to deal with residents in nursing homes, and it was there that DeSantis may have taken appropriate measures to reduce mortality.

I tend to compare statistics with Illinois and it seems that recently Illinois has been doing much better in case positivity rate , with a positivity rate of 2.19% compared to Florida’s 6.4%, in new cases as a percentage of population, and in current mortality rate, though total mortality rate since the beginning of the pandemic is still higher here.