Biden's bad ideas

PJ Media:

...
Enter Joe Biden’s terrible, awful idea. In his first joint interview with Kamala Harris on ABC, he announced he would shut down the entire country to fight COVID-19.

He invoked saving lives. If he were serious about this, he would acknowledge what terrible outcomes shutdowns are causing. As our Townhall colleague Brad Slager noted recently, doctors worldwide are recording more deaths due to lockdowns than COVID-19.

Biden’s assertion that we can’t get the country moving until we “control” the virus is absurd. South Dakota has never shut down. Georgia and Florida were early movers to reopen. Our states are moving forward just fine, and people are making responsible decisions without government mandates. For the most part, economies that have refused to shut down again are doing better.

With the notable exception of Florida, which relies heavily on the hospitality industry, the lightest-touch COVID-19 restriction states have lower unemployment rates. Heavy-handed states, such as New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and California have the highest. The South generally reports more businesses open in some capacity and reports no permanent closures, according to a Met-Life small business study published in July.

For someone who says he is worried about constitutional norms, the idea that Biden thinks he can shut down states or require a national mask mandate is just absurd. Any attempt to do so will lead to a faster fracture in terms of some states refusing to enforce national mandates. Blue states set the standard by refusing to enforce federal immigration laws. That is a legitimate federal responsibility. Red-state governors need to be prepared to reject these kinds of national mandates should Biden win.

However, what should be concerning to voters is that Biden’s comment shows a complete lack of leadership. Biden has no science to back up his policy of a national shutdown. Worse than that, he seems to be willing to hand over decision-making to so-called “experts” in the bureaucracy with a narrow view on a particular situation....

There is more.

The lockdown states have faired worse than the open states with more deaths from the virus and more deaths from the lockdowns.  In some cases, the deaths from the lockdowns exceed the deaths from the disease.  Democrats seem to think that referring to science for their position becomes a magic word that is supposed to be a King's X argument.