>> And, even with all that, he's still killed more than both Cuomo and Abbott.
NY median age is several years younger than that of Florida. It makes a big difference.
That's why it is so damned hard to compare states; there are 10s of correlates that will make a significant difference one way or the other.
You can't just say, "Shutting down the economy saved lives" because you really don't know what did and didn't save lives.
We know that NY killed thousands through negligence. As did Michigan and NJ, in lesser numbers. I'm not convinced anywhere else was as egregious as all that.
The big losses were a systemic failure. Fauci, on Day One, missed it. But within a month he should have been setting up 24/7 clinics in every metro area where patients could walk in, be diagnosed, and given basic treatment -- antibiotics, Dexamethasone, Vitamin C/D, Zinc, and HCQ and/or IVM. All harmless stuff that would undoubtedly have saved many thousands of lives, at minimal cost. You could do that quickly if you tried. It would have been better than what they were getting at ER, which was, "Come back when you're dying."
Anyone could see that mistake unfolding in real time. But Fauci wanted to go for the vaccine. |
