Thread by @AGHamilton29

These people are so dishonest that it's exhausting. Even with FL's recent spike, they are doing better than most states. Meanwhile, Krugman is openly praising the 3 Governors with the worst response records in the country:

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1274423569586556929

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1274659201382563840

For comparison as of June 19th, death rates per 100K:

Michigan- 61
New York- 159
New Jersey- 145
Florida- 14

statista.com/statistics/110…

% of nursing home residents killed:

MI-5%
NY- 6%
NJ- 12%
FL- 1.6%

propublica.org/article/fire-t…

Do you have any idea how long FL would have to spike to face nearly the disaster of the states whose Governors Krugman pretends did a great job?

And at least on nursing homes, that difference can be tied directly to policies from those Governors.

In addition, they can't point to specific policies from DeSantis to blame the recent spike on. They freaked out over beaches, but those opened nearly 2 months ago. Re-opening began in early May. Neither of those can be correlated to the recent spike (over last week).

We are now seeing spikes in states that never really had a big outbreak before the lockdowns. Most of those spikes started over last 2-3 weeks. That doesn't correlate to re-openings. It does match up w/ protests, but not necessarily protest locations.

My personal hypothesis is that the actual virus spread at the protests might not have been as bad as possible, but seeing massive protests being sanctioned by pols and health officials led to a significant decrease in social distancing everywhere. Now we are seeing consequences.

The good news is that death rates continue to decline thus far. It could be that they are just lagging, but another possibility is that the people getting it now are low risk and we are doing a better job treating the virus and protecting at-risk populations.