The truth about the economic and COVID outcome disparities between states locked down by their governors and the seven states allowed to remain open was brutally victimized in a recent Hays Post story.
The article was written by a reporter at the Kansas Reflector, a left-leaning Topeka organization affiliated with States Newsroom.
A column at The Sentinel exposes a long list of false accusations, deception and incomplete information. For example, the states locked down by their governors have 46% more COVID deaths per million of population than the seven states not shut down. The survival rate for the states left open is 99% versus 97.6 % for the states shut down.
States not shut down by their governors also have less job loss. They lost 4.5% of private jobs between February and September, versus 7.7% for the others. Nebraska is one the states not shuttered by their governor; if Kansas had only lost 3.7% of jobs like Nebraska (instead of our loss of 5.2%), there would have been 17,000 more jobs here in September.
But don’t just take my word for this; watch the video of the legislative hearing and you’ll understand the full depth of media bias in Topeka.
Dave Trabert is CEO of the Kansas Policy Institute, an educational and research organization.