I watch Sam the Cooking Guy regularly. Sam owns two restaurants in Little Italy in San Diego; in the following video clip, he gets interviewed, and he has some choice words for California governor Gavin Newsom. The reporter interviewing Sam also puts aside any pretense at objectivity to express his own anger and disappointment with Newsom's unreasonable and draconian measures:
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-hospitals-crushed-as-virus-patients-flood-icus/ar-BB1c3dkk?ocid=msedgntp
ReplyDeleteI'm so tired of the deniers. Are you keeping up with the numbers? It's not a fucking Democratic hoax Hello, the election is OVER. People are dying. You know what...I've been following and reading your blog for over 17 years but I'm done. And in the meantime, the loser in the White House hasn't said a damn word about this, or the Russian data breach.
Sorry to see you go, Frank. The issue is obviously beyond discussion or debate for you, so all I can do is wish you good fortune, wherever your path may lead you.
ReplyDeleteFor anyone else who reads this thread, though, here's an Instapundit link.
ReplyDeleteWanna talk denialism? Let's talk about insanely pursuing lockdown policies that promote the spread of infection and kill local economies. California is merely one blue state among many to insist on self-strangulation as a way to combat the problem. Compare blue New York to red Florida. The infection and mortality stats in Florida are significantly lower, yet idiot Cuomo gets all the praise. Frank's MSN article merely reinforces this point: California is a prime example of how to suck at your job. So who's in denial?
Don't know how true this is, but one Instapundit commenter says the following:
ReplyDeleteCalifornia's Covid death rate of 560 per million people still is significantly lower than the U.S. average of 961 deaths per million. It's certainly much lower than New York state's Covid death rate of 1,856 per million.
California's Covid deaths did spike in the last two weeks. But there's no way to tell yet whether that state's pandemic policies ultimately will lead to worse results than most other states.
As a defense of California goes, the above isn't exactly reassuring. Saying "at least we're not as bad as New York" strikes me as damning with faint praise. Other commenters, meanwhile, are displaying some nasty-looking graphs of California's recent death spikes. Again, not reassuring.
Another commenter posts this graph of COVID-19 cases spiking in Denmark.
ReplyDeleteThere's no denying it, affluent California's lack of hospital beds per total population is appalling and New York's isn't much better. South Dakota has near 5 beds per 1,000 while California has less than 2. I'm no fan of China and their use of the virus to supposedly accidentally sow death and discontent around the world, but why can't California quickly build hospitals and add beds as fast as China (10 days).
ReplyDeleteJohn,
ReplyDeleteNot being an econ expert, I don't know the answer, but at a guess, California has long been deep in debt, is still insisting on pursuing white-elephant programs, and is beholden to a "woke" economic policy that promotes over-regulation of businesses along with other onerous restrictions on its citizens, all in the name of dealing with phantom bigotry by attempting to legislate PC morality. Even before the lockdown madness, California was already engaged in self-strangulation. That'd be my guess, anyway, as to why CA can't build things that need to be built. Its collective head is too far up its collective ass.