{"id":77187,"date":"2021-03-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77187"},"modified":"2021-03-23T07:48:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:48:35","slug":"worse-than-the-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77187","title":{"rendered":"Worse Than The Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Science:   Draconian lockdowns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/opinion\/editorials\/editorial-virus-lockdowns-dont-appear-to-have-worked-as-advertised-2304332\/\">are, at best, of no real effect in containing the effects of Coronavirus<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Associated Press picked up on the theme over the weekend, finding that states which enacted tight restrictions on commerce and other activities performed no better in preventing coronavirus deaths or confirmed infections. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, for instance, imposed some of the most draconian curbs in the nation. Florida was at the opposite extreme. Yet \u201cCalifornia and Florida have experienced almost identical outcomes in COVID-19 case rates,\u201d the AP reports, and both rank in the middle in terms of deaths per capita.<\/p><p>The latter is even more significant given that California\u2019s younger demographic means that a higher percentage of Florida residents were at high risk for serious virus complications.<\/p><p>The AP also highlights the contrast between South Dakota and Connecticut, which are both among the 10 worst states in terms of death rates. But the latter was much more aggressive in restricting the actions of its residents, while the former took a laissez-faire approach.<\/p><p>While there are obviously many factors in play when making comparisons between the states, such anecdotal evidence is in line with a peer-reviewed Stanford study of eight countries \u2014 including the United States \u2014 published in January that found \u201cno clear significant beneficial effect\u201d from stay-at-home orders and business closures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Politics:  &#8220;They&#8217;re not about containing viruses, silly deplorables&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science: Draconian lockdowns are, at best, of no real effect in containing the effects of Coronavirus: The Associated Press picked up on the theme over the weekend, finding that states which enacted tight restrictions on commerce and other activities performed no better in preventing coronavirus deaths or confirmed infections. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, for instance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77241,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77187\/revisions\/77241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}