Blue State Parade: Intentional Homicide (Manslaughter)

Guest Post by Karl Denninger

We know the lockdowns were bull**** folks.

This isn’t speculation; as I pointed out at the end of March every single state that I looked at had its infection rate (not case count, rate of expansion) peak on or before the day the lockdowns were enacted.

Since it takes five to ten days from infection before you are symptomatic enough to go seek treatment this means the lockdown orders could not have caused the curve to collapse because the mitigation was put into place after the event occurred.

That which you do after something happens cannot be the cause of the “something.”  Period.

Not reversing all those orders on or around April 1st was flatly unsupported by facts and thus was and remains criminal malfeasance.  There is exactly no state that should not have had their executives dragged out of office on April 1st by the direct action of the overwhelming majority of their citizens, or had their “orders” simply ignored.

It is a fact that even a small single-digit percentage of the citizens of any State in the US (or in the US as a whole) can very-effectively nullify any action of said government should they really mean it, exactly as occurred 250-odd years ago.  The acts of these tyrants have thrown out of work one third or more of the citizens of every State and have threatened to destroy entire regions that are dependent on so-called “non-essential” activity.  Without extraordinary proof, which never existed and we now know was unsupportable on the science there was exactly zero reason for any American to put up with any of it beyond April 1st.

As time has gone on, however we’ve developed another, far more-disturbing pattern and documented proof of that as well.

Florida loses approximately 200,000 people a year to all-cause mortality.  New York, which has a roughly-comparable population, loses about 150,000.  This is not surprising; Florida’s population has an older median age and thus you’d expect more people to die for all manner of ordinary reasons.

New York has had roughly 23,000 covid-19 deaths recorded.  That’s 15% of all-cause mortality, a very significant impact and enough to scare the living Hell out of a significant percentage of the population.

Which, I shouldn’t need to remind you, it did.

Florida, on the other hand, has had about 2,200 covid-19 deaths.  That’s approximately 1.1% of all-cause mortality, a completely-insignificant percentage — in fact, a rate lost in the ordinary year to year statistical noise of the all-cause rate of death.

Tennessee has had about 300 deaths, and usually has about 70,000 all-cause deaths a year.  That’s under 0.5%, again, an utterly-insignificant impact and again lost in the ordinary statistical noise.

Michigan has had ~5,200 Covid-19 deaths; the state’s all-cause mortality is right around 99,000.  That’s 5.25%, or ten times Tennessee’s rate.  Now that is a figure that is quite material.  Maybe not enough to scare the living Hell out of everyone (it’s 1/3rd of NY’s rate, after all) but it is high enough to scare plenty of people.

Illinois had 4,715 Covid-19 deaths; their all-cause mortality in 2018 was 110,000.  That’s 4.29%, or about ten times that of Tennessee and approximately four times that of Florida, which has an older population than Illinois.  Again, quite material.

Do you think viruses are racist?  Do you think they honor red-blue, that is, Democrat:Republican party lines and only kill Democrats?  Do they only kill people in states with Democrat Governors?

Obviously not.

Do you think “aggressive” lockdown measures, which have been more-aggressive in “Blue” states, work?

Obviously not; the more-aggressive lockdowns are producing a death rate five to ten times higher than states that have imposed lesser measures.

Are lockdowns “killing people”?  Probably not from Coronavirus, although that remains to be proved.  But some jurisdictions are reporting more than ten times the normal number of suicide attempts; a year’s worth of them, in one example, over four weeks’ time.

That’s more than a thousand percent increase.

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