#1, AT a time when politics has become vicious and national, Americans would benefit from looking at leaders’ competing visions at the state level. Who is actually making people’s lives better or worse, and how? The public may be starting to do so as Govs. Ron DeSantis, Gavin Newsom, and Andrew Cuomo have attracted national attention for — well — a variety of reasons. But their controversies only scratch the surface. One of the important and under-appreciated stories of the last year is how pro-lockdown states ruined the livelihoods of millions of Americans without any lives saved to show for their heavy-handed interventions. Most states with the strictest COVID lockdowns destroyed millions of jobs for their citizens, while those with modest, targeted rules are largely experiencing low levels of unemployment even for normal times. READ MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/strict-states-ruined-livelihoods-without-saving-lives/
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#2, A VERY DETAILED ARTICLE....Jobs are recovering slower in New York and other states holding on to stringent COVID-19 restrictions than in states that fully reopened their economies, even though continued lockdown measures don’t appear to be saving lives, an ongoing study by WalletHub shows.
Measures like limiting travel, keeping restaurants operating below
capacity and leaving non-essential businesses closed have kept
unemployment in New York State among the highest in the nation, while
states with fewer restrictions...MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/covid-lockdowns-cost-jobs-dont-appear-to-have-saved-lives/
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