COVID-19 death rate is 75% lower in states that didn't lock down: WSJ

Limbaugh: Media 'want you to think cases equals sickness, equals death'

By Joe Kovacs
Published June 24, 2020 at 5:58pm

Army Pfc. Kelly Buterbaugh, a combat medic assigned to the Delaware Army National Guard Medical Detachment, talks with fellow soldiers at a drive-thru testing site for COVID-19 on the grounds of Central Middle School in Dover, Delaware, June 17, 2020. About 10 soldiers and airmen with the National Guard supported the saliva-based testing of 130 people at the school. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Capt. Brendan Mackie)

A lead editorial in the Wall Street Journal reveals the per-capita death rate for the coronavirus is 75% lower in states that did not panic into lockdown mode.

"GOP governors have faced enormous media pressure to lock down their states in solidarity with Democrats, and some now are getting browbeaten to shut down again amid coronavirus flare-ups. 

So it's worth pointing out that states that didn't lock down this spring kept the virus under control and experienced fewer deaths than most [of the states] that did," the Journal's editors said on Wednesday.

"A new analysis by The Sentinel, a Kansas nonprofit, compares the 42 states that shut down most of their economies with the eight that did not. 

The latter group includes mostly rural states with some small metropolitan areas: North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Utah. 

Private employment on average fell by 7.8% between May 2019 and May 2020 in these states while plunging 13.2% in the others."

https://www.wnd.com/2020/06/covid-19-death-rate-75-lower-states-not-lock/