‘Experts’ struggle to explain why the free state of Florida has half the Covid case rate of masked and vax mandated California

By Thomas Lifson

It’s definitely embarrassing for “experts” when the people following their advice do worse than those who flaunt it. But that’s currently the case when it comes to reining in Covid. Leslie Eastman writes at Legal Insurrection:

Just ahead of the recall election that he survived, Gov. Gavin Newsom boasted that California “continues to lead the nation” as the only state to reach the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s yellow “moderate” tier of community virus transmission. Meanwhile, Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis was getting a media pounding for his state’s case rate.

Now California’s case rate is twice that of the Sunshine State’s.

Have you noticed that Sweden, which never locked down and which focused on protecting the most vulnerable – as has always been the approach taken to epidemics until China role modeled total lockdowns to fight the virus it created – has virtually disappeared from the media? Turns out that Covid is not exactly exploding as the winter months force people indoors, where virus transmission is more probable than outdoors:........To Read More.....

Yet another Democrat leader tells people to stay home for Christmas, then announces she will travel to visit her relatives

December 24, 2020 By Thomas Lifson 

 

Democrat leaders like Governors Gavin Newsom, Andrew CVuomo, Gretchen Whitmer, and J.B. Pritzker, Mayors Lauri Lightfoot and London Breed, and now Mecklenburg (Charlotte), North Carolina County Executive Dena Diorio, have all exposed themselves as outright hypocrites and elitists by telling ordinary people to obey restrictions on their personal freedoms while flaunting those same limitations themselves. It is as if some madness has gripped Democrat elected officials, compelling them to flaunt their contempt for those they are supposed to lead and their belief that they alone are capable of making rational decisions about which risks to take, while the ignorant sheep must be told what to do and contrained.

Yesterday, in a virtual news conference, County Executive Dena Diorio made a fool of herself by telling county residents to stay home for Christmas, and then under questioning admitting that she would be traveling by car to Durham (142 miles) to spend Christmas with her family. Here are excerpts courtesy of the UK Daily Mail:.........To Read more...