From Tom Woods today:
[Please note that the second to last sentence (bold) about California not releasing the data used as the basis for their policies is exactly the same as here in Hawaii, where the governor, lt. governor, AG, state department of health, and mayor of Hawaii County will not release any information at all about how they have reached the policy decisions they have imposed, nor as to what metrics will be used to determine when to end all the "mitigation" measures. And that's a refusal in the face of a legitmate UIPA requests to each agency or office. Now why would they not want to reveal that to the public? As Woods puts it... we're too stupid to understand their sophisticated science... aka total bullshit lying sacks of shit.]
One of the craziest things about a crazy year is that Andrew Cuomo, whose state had the second-worst COVID result (New Jersey being first), was hailed as a hero in the media.
Oh, the excuse factory has its reasons for celebrating Cuomo. They say that because New York was the first place to be significantly hit by the virus, Cuomo was bound to make some mistakes, but things would surely have been worse without his "leadership."
Ron DeSantis in Florida, meanwhile, is personally responsible for every death, because by the time it really hit Florida he should have been able to prevent them all.
Sure.
California, meanwhile, is the State That Shall Not Be Mentioned. It should be doing much better than it is if the lockdown voodoo worked, and yet it isn't. When California does get mentioned, the excuse factory struggles to explain it away with laughable claims of "noncompliance."
So let's check in:
Let's talk about what we're seeing in this graph, which extends back to mid-March and continues through the present.
First, note that cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are given per million, so population is already taken into account.
What we note is this: California and New York have higher case, hospitalization, and death rates right now than Florida had even at its peak. For all three of those metrics, Florida at its worst never reached where the other two states are today. Whatever will the excuse factory do now?
Florida's theme parks are open. Schools have remained open. Tourists continue to come in and out. No state-imposed occupancy restrictions exist anywhere. I just saw a comedy show at the King Center in Melbourne. I'll be seeing Beethoven's Emperor Concerto performed by the Orlando Philharmonic on March 1.
And yet Florida right now is doing better than California and New York, where these pleasures of life have been canceled for ten months. Again, Florida's rates have never been worse than California and New York's are right now.
How can this be?
The one reply the excuse factory has is that the overall death rate in California is slightly lower than Florida's, but it's gaining, and what difference exists can be accounted for by the fact that Florida has a notoriously large elderly population, while California has one of America's youngest populations.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, California is so driven by the science that it won't release the metrics it uses to the public, because we're too stupid to understand all this advanced stuff. Thus the Bay Area's KTVU just tweeted:
"State health officials said they rely on a very complex set of measurements that would confuse and potentially mislead the public if they were made public."Now that's some science!