{"id":39200,"date":"2022-12-09T19:19:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T00:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=39200"},"modified":"2022-12-09T19:19:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T00:19:37","slug":"interesting-statistic-governors-opposed-to-lock-downs-did-better-than-those-who-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=39200","title":{"rendered":"Interesting statistic. Governors opposed to lock-downs did better than those who didn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. There are a number of reviews underway regarding the Midterm elections. While the Republican party didn\u2019t do as well as expected at the federal level, they did do fairly well at the state and local levels. One interesting statistic is in regards to Governors who opposes the Panicdemic lock-downs.<\/p>\n

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It seems that those governors, and they are mostly Republicans, that opposed the lock-downs, or quickly opened back up once they saw how useless they were, did very well at the polls. Here are the details from Fox News<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Governors who were fast to oppose pandemic lockdowns<\/a> and reopen their states were able to win re-election easily in the 2022 midterms, increasing their margin of victory over their 2018 performances. <\/b><\/p>\n

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Govs. Ron DeSantis<\/a> of Florida, Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Kim Reynolds of Iowa, Jared Polis of Colorado and Brian Kemp of Georgia all cruised to re-election in Tuesday’s, <\/b>(November 8<\/b>th<\/b><\/sup>),<\/b> midterms, winning by an average of 18.1 percentage points. The margins of victory for the anti-lockdown governors stood in stark contrast to their narrower victories in 2018 when the same five candidates won by an average margin of 3.7 percentage points.<\/b><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not surprised really. The lockdown was a complete economic disaster we\u2019re going to take years to recover from, especially when we have the incompetent, senile boob in the Oval office making every wrong decision he can.<\/p>\n

DeSantis provided perhaps the most stunning turnaround in 2022, winning re-election by 19.4 percentage points. The popular Republican barely won his first bid for governor in 2018, winning by just 0.4 percentage points. <\/b><\/p>\n

Well, there were a few things that aided him of course. First, his opponent, Charlie Crist, is a narcissistic moron who will say anything to anyone if it will get him elected. Everyone in Florida remembers this. (He will also change parties faster then a new mother will change her baby\u2019s diapers, and for the same reasons)<\/p>\n

Second, Governor DeSantis has been going after the Woke school boards and Disney. He, with the help of the state legislature, took away the special deal that Disney\u2019s had for decades for their support of things like Critical Race Theory and mutilation of children Instead of staying apolitical, Disney has gone Woke big time and now, with the loss of the special status, it\u2019s going to cost them big bucks.<\/p>\n

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Last, Governor DeSantis has been taking on the Progressive school boards, backing the parents who flat out had it with their endangering and indoctrinating their children.<\/p>\n

The Florida governor was famously opposed to strict lockdown measures for much of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though he ordered a stay-at-home order in the early days of the pandemic on April 2, 2020, DeSantis lifted the order just over a month later on May 4. <\/b><\/p>\n

He quickly realized that the lock-downs were doing far more harm then good. I wish my home city and state had figured that out.<\/p>\n

Florida schools<\/a> also shut down in-person instruction in March 2020, though all the state’s public schools were re-opened to in-person instruction by the end of the school year. Public schools were then required to reopen for in-person instruction at the beginning of the following school year, with DeSantis resisting calls to close them down through various waves of COVID-19 infections in the state. <\/b><\/p>\n

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We learned very quickly that the Coronavirus has little effect on children. Yes, they get sick, but it appears that it was no worse then a flu or cold virus for them. Instead, we had what amounted to a \u201cBlue Flue\u201d by the teachers unions, flat out refusing to go back to the classrooms. Governor DeSantis\u2019s going after the \u201cProfessional Indoctrinators<\/i><\/span> Educators got a lot of parents on board with him.<\/p>\n

In South Dakota<\/a>, Noem also cruised to an easy victory last week, winning re-election by 26.8 percentage points. The race was much different than her 2018 victory, which saw the Republican win by just 3.4 percentage points. <\/b><\/p>\n

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Over her term in office, Governor Noem has made a few unforced errors, however, by and large she is one of the good governors. (She also seems to be able to learn from her mistakes)<\/p>\n

Noem became a leader of the anti-lockdown movement early in the pandemic. The South Dakota governor never issued a stay-at-home order. Though Noem ordered schools to close in March 2020 and extended that order through the end of the school year in May, the state reopened its schools to in-person instruction by the start of the next school year. Like DeSantis, Noem resisted calls to close schools again during waves of positive cases in the state. <\/b><\/p>\n

This is a far cry from all the Democrat controlled cities and states. They closed the schools and kept them closed, not at the request of the parents, but at the orders of the Teachers unions. The parents were in opposition to the unions demands on keeping the schools closed, and in retrospect, they were right.<\/p>\n

Noem publicly defended her approach throughout the pandemic, going so far as to criticize other Republicans governors who issued what she called “useless” lockdowns.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve got Republican governors across this country pretending they didn\u2019t shut down their states; that they didn\u2019t close their regions; that they didn\u2019t mandate masks, that they didn\u2019t need to issue shelter in places,” Noem said last year. “South Dakota did not do any of those\u2026 we didn\u2019t mandate. We trusted our people and told them that personal responsibility was the best answer.” <\/b><\/p>\n

One of those would be New Hampshire\u2019s govno Chris Sununu. At first, he resisted the mask mandates and lock-downs. Then a senior member of the state legislature died of the effects of the Coronavirus, and Sununu when all in on the Fauci lock-downs. The only reason he won reelection is that he didn\u2019t face any real opponents in the primary, and the Democrats put up a nobody named Tom Sherman. (I don\u2019t even remember seeing Sherman on the ballot, not that I was looking for him) Sununu is bit of a RINO, although not as bad as people like Kevin McCarthy or Cocaine Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n

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On the Democrat side, there was actually one governor who also scrapped the lock-downs. This was the Democrat governor in Colorado, Jared Polis.<\/p>\n

In Colorado<\/a>, Polis issued one of the briefest stay-at-home orders of the country’s Democratic governors in 2020, shutting down the state on March 26 but reopening it a month later. Polis also took a less strict approach than his Democratic peers to school closings, shutting down the state’s schools for the remainder of the school year in April but allowing districts to make their own choice on in-person instruction for the start of the next school year. <\/b><\/p>\n

The governor’s performance during the pandemic was rewarded by Colorado voters, who re-elected Polis by 18.1 percentage points. The performance was 7.5 percentage points better than his 2018 run for governor when Polis won by 10.6 percentage points. <\/b><\/p>\n

“I don’t think this is about stay-at-homes or lockdowns anymore,” Polis said in November 2020 amid pressure to issue new lockdown orders as COVID-19 cases surged in Colorado. <\/b><\/p>\n

This is one of the few areas that Polis was right on. (Generally he is wrong on pretty much everything else, but I will provide three golf claps for doing the right thing in this case. \u201cClap, Clap, Clap\u201d) Now if you recall, the original idea for the lock down nationally was to \u201cBend the curve\u201d as it were and allow hospitals to prepare for the massive influx of Coronavirus patients. This influx never happened. Most people who got sick stayed home. If they got worse or had a preexisting condition, then they went to the hospital. The original stay at home order was to last only two weeks, but it kept getting extended over and over again.<\/p>\n

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We now know that this was nothing more than a way to Get President Trump out of office and also to get people used to having their rights taken from them. The backlash started with the parents when they saw what was actually being taught to their children and they went after the school boards. They also wanted their children back in school so they could get the attention they needed. (We now have statistical evidence that remote learning was a complete failure)<\/p>\n

People were also thrown out of good jobs by the lock-downs and many of them haven\u2019t gotten new ones. (Part of this is due to all the free money handed out by the Democrats. Yes, I know. Trump pushed this too, and he was wrong) The states that either didn\u2019t lock down or opened back up quickly are the ones that are experiencing the highest levels of economic gain. The ones that stayed locked down the longest are, to be blunt, collapsing. (See Kalifornistan, New York, Etc)<\/p>\n

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Ron DeSantis is seen by some as a good candidate for the 2024 election. I see him as a possibility if President Trump decides to pull out. I also see him as an excellent Vice-President in the new Trump Administration with an eye on winning the 2028 election. If he does run, assuming that Trump doesn\u2019t, he has an excellent chance of winning. If he does, it will be due to things like opening his state for business when all the others were killing their economies.<\/p>\n

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