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Again, What Were the Benefits of Locking Down? – AIER

• linsomniac 6y ago
  TL;DR: A handful of rather rural states did no or limited lockdown, and their economies are better off and there were fewer deaths. So therefor the lockdowns made things worse rather than better. This piece is high on speculation. It uses 8 rather rural states, 3 of did have some level of lockdown, to speculate what would have happened in more densely populated states if they had not done a lockdown. It really takes 3 variables (govenor lockdown, unemployment, deaths), and tries to draw some outsized conclusions. As a counter point, that data also shows that Nebraska (no lockdown) had similar unemployment but 50% higher death rates than very similar neighbor Kansas.