Its Official: Journal of American Medicine finds red states suffered more Covid deaths.
JAMA Summary:
“If all states had imposed COVID-19 restrictions similar to those used in the 10 most restrictive states, excess deaths would have been an estimated 10% to 21% lower than the 1.18 million that actually occurred during the 2-year period analyzed. The more restrictive states were in the northeast and the least restrictive were in the south and west.”
In general, Republican controlled states ignored science and refused masking, closures, mandatory immunizations, and other measures which would have saved more of their citizen’s lives.
They just didn’t kill Republicans. Democrats and Independents in their states also died unnecessarily as a result of their political approach to the pandemic.
The people who wouldn’t wear a mask to protect their fellow citizens, wore gauze on their ears to support their Dear Leader at the Republican National Convention.
Lesson learned: Voting Democratic saves people’s lives.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2821581
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Makes sense to me. Living in a red red area of a red state, I watched Covid unfold with terrified eyes. By the goddess’ grace I never ever got Covid — only person I know. Family, friends, colleagues all had it at least once. Heartbreaking indeed.
Thank you so much, surfered, for these educational details. 
Congratulations on your top-notch judgment skills in preventing Covid. Wisdom is a great healer!
Each health situation is unique. Personally, my plan is to wait until the new booster comes out shortly.
Being an author and unapologetic research geek (whose lengthy doctoral dissertation was an “Analytical Study of the Nursing Shortage, and Specific Stress Factors of Individual Nurses”), I’d love to know the percentage of people over 65 and/or who are immuno-compromized who have never, ever contracted Covid. And what specific behaviors they did (and do) to make that happen.
Unfortunately, that info is not available from CDC or any other reputable sources I’ve checked.
I even asked my brilliant physician last week what the percentage of patients he was seeing who had never contracted Covid, and all he could do was stare at me and make a guess. “Almost none,” he said.
Maybe we should start a DU conversation to collect anonymous data on specific behaviors that really work, so that in the future people would have better options to stay healthy.
Your thoughts?
..to, um... uh... to not take safety precautions around our neighbors. This is exactly what George Washington meant when he fought at Valley Forge and... um... had his troops all inoculated against small pox.
Since DeSantis is keeping them ùnder wraps.
We don't want no facts getting us all communized.
