Introduction
An article published March 25, 2021 “UK Lockdown One Year On: It Doesn't Work, It Never Worked, & It Wasn't Supposed To Work” – by Kit Knightly at
shows the following chart
as evidence that lockdowns do not work. It then goes on to advocate for no lockdowns, no social distancing, no masks etc. and blames such restrictions as being useless and propagated by governments for ulterior motives.
The populations and political leanings of the most populated states in the US are below:
California | Texas | New York | Florida | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Population | 39,512,223 | 28,995,581 | 19,453,561 | 18,804,564 |
Political leaning | Democrat | Republican | Democrat | Republican |
We use the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) COVID-19 data at https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19.