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Dr. Joel Zinberg said states with fewer restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic outperformed states like Illinois that implemented more restrictions. “The important finding of our study is that states that imposed more severe lockdown measures did not do any better than states that were less restrictive in terms of health, and they did much worse in terms of economic and educational outcomes,” Zinberg said.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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That’s what happens when you follow (political) science and (ignore) data.
Early on the virus’ primary target was determined: elderly, immuno-compromised, and/or obese. Yet JB imposed ‘one size fits all,’ and daily engaged in televised fear mongering ‘updates.’
IL is still governed under an emergency declaration. Three years later.
In spite of all this – JB was reelected.
Sad.
JB’s base voters are the crazy people who still wear masks outdoors even today. I see them frequently in my ‘burb. Every policy JB enacted was to appease them. And if you chose not to wear a mask outdoors, YOU, the deplorable, were complicit in killing grandma, and YOU were the enemy.
We have to keep seeking out facts
More carnival barkers, right JB?