Thursday 29 October 2020

Democrat States continue to outperform on Covid

My graph from Worldometer at 28 October
Outperform, that is, in terms of deaths per million. 

Nine out of the top ten US states in terms of deaths per million are run by Democrat governors. And in the US, which is a Federal Republic, the governors are the ones running things. Recall Governor Cuomo of NY State some months back, making a huge deal, every single night in a press conference, of how he and “my people” were handling the virus. Turns out not too well, as he’s no. 2 in deaths per million in the US and the second worst in the world. 

But the MSM will never mention this. Because they need to blame OMB for it all. In an inversion of reality, Cuomo has come out as some sort of hero! While he has ruled over the second worst deaths per capita in the world. 

Please note: the top five US States above, all Democrat, have the highest rates of death per capita in the world. Not just that they are doing worse than Republican-run States; they are doing worse than every other country in the world. 

Meantime, Trump is hammered for having mishandled the virus. Where, overall, the US is middling. About where most European countries, and the UK, are (600-700 deaths per million).

Mind, Trump has done himself no favours with his quixotic handling of the pandemic. But blaming him outright is simply nonsense, when the real responsibility is with the governors and the data show how they’ve done. Namely: Democratic lockdowns only lead to more deaths per capita.