Is reopening early good for the economy? The debate is now over.

The two large states that resisted shutting down the most, Florida and Georgia, are the two states with the most newly unemployed.

https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OPA/newsreleases/ui-claims/20201453.pdf

That was something anybody with a brain could have seen coming.

Of course, "anybody with a brain" excludes Republicans. The economy over human lives, that was their battle cry. Reminds me of that quote (and I'm sure I'm paraphrasing): "Those who choose security over freedom will have neither." Republicans who chose the economy over human lives are losing both.

The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending July 4 were in Puerto Rico (26.0), Nevada (21.3), Hawaii (20.7), Georgia (18.0), California (16.9), Louisiana (16.6), New York (16.1), Connecticut (15.4), the Virgin Islands (15.2), and Massachusetts (15.0). The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending July 11 were in Florida (+65,890), Georgia (+33,292), California (+20,123), Washington (+16,116), and Indiana (+6,258), while the largest decreases were in Maryland (-13,728), Texas (-11,583), New Jersey (-8,577), Michigan (-6,882), and Louisiana (-5,066).

Who cares about state by state?

At a national level most of the free world is once again open for business.  We aren't.  Its that simple.  

What was different about them vs us?   I think I have a clue:

The facts are that early-opening states are seeing huge spikes in CoVid-19 cases as well as record unemployment. The prattle from their Trump-slave governors was that yeah, maybe we'll have an additional ten thousand deaths or so, but our economy would get up and start hummin' the way it's sposed to in 'MURRICA. Except that they got the deaths without the economic "reward" for those deaths that Trumpie-poo promised them.

Could it have been that obeying Trumpie-poo wasn't a good idea after all?? Oh, lawdy, lawdy!!!!