13 of those 14 states are the ones with March/April outbreaks, before we had decent treatments.
The other one is MS, which is doing the same stupid shit you are.
So, of the 35 or so states without a major April outbreak, AZ ranks second to last.
I didn't realize this was how the goal posts get moved.
Up until yesterday when the facts didn't go your way you never have said we should rank states now vs back in March & April.
Is it just treatments that are making the difference?
Is it that smart states realized early on that you don't put infected people back into locations (nursing homes) with lots of already sick people? And yet Cuomo is still lauded by many as being on top of the outbreak.
Why is it that despite an abundance of new cases throughout the US, the number of deaths haven't come anywhere close to what we first saw? A time when the virus was just introduced to the US. A time when relatively few people had it apparently but caused a lot of deaths.
You have been saying for months now (late April for GA and FL) and early May for TX and AZ that things were going sideways for those states. They haven't. And yet you still continue.
CA who you don't complain about also has seen a spike in CASES but not a corresponding rise in deaths. Why no complaints about CA? CA has more cases per million vs TX and slightly less vs FL.
Overall it stands to reason that as people go out and about more that cases will rise right? Early on it was about FLATTENING the curve to allow supplies to catch up. At the time they (the gov/press/experts) were honest. They just needed some time. The virus wasn't magically going away. But then the Karen's became worried and a brief period of closure to allow the hospitals catch up became...do very little until we have a vaccine.
The reality is that 45 states have seen nothing like the NE experienced early on. And yet our policies and fears seem to be largely predicated on what happened early on.
5 states have contributed to a bit less than 50% off all deaths. States with a population of 50 million.
The rest of the states with about 280 million have experience roughly 72k deaths. Of those, using the stats put out by a variety of orgs..and reported on by the NY Times for instance...43% of all deaths are in nursing homes/assisted living facilities. Places were when you are placed you are never getting out alive by the way.
So taking out the 43% in nursing homes...you have about 30K individuals who have died in a population of 280 million people. 30k. That is not a large # considering the size of the population.
Yet you and others want to shut it all down based on that. And keep it shut down. Restaurants who employ a huge percentage of the workforce? Sorry owners and employees. Suck it up. Suppliers reliant in supplying them? Suck it up boys. Their employees? Suck it up boys. The families that rely on their parents making money working? Sorry...take your unemployment check and suck it up. By the way...no school for your kids either. Gym owners? Yeah no you can't support yourself. And the list goes on.
All for something right now that is about 2.5x worse than the flu.
You basically advocate putting life on hold...biz, school, etc until some vaccine comes around. We don't know when that will happen, if it will happen, how effective it will be, etc.
State finances have had a hole blown through them. Same with municipalities. This will force reductions in services for people that need them. They will also try to raise taxes to fill their needs. Tax people and biz already making less? States like CA are basically screwing kids with no in class for AT least through fall. Screw them right? They will get substandard educations in fall at a min. The rich and the better off middle class will find something that isnt totally substandard, but their kids education will suffer. The lower middle class and poor? They are out of luck.
Fed finances? How many trillions have we spent? How many trillions in lost economic activity have we lost?
All this for something that isn't a risk to the VAST VAST majority of our population. For something that overall is 2.5x worse than a bad flu season.
Madness.