Hawaii scores a D on covid

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New study based on the 3 primary variables of mortality, economy and education. Hawaii did great on mortality, poorly everywhere else. Hawaii being an island enabled lockdowns to kinda work to preserve health although not significantly better then Maine where kids were in school.

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/docum...dstudy.pdf

We should note that Hawaii, as an isolated island, stands out as a special case. It ranks last on the economic index and sixth from last on schooling. As of March 2022, it ranks first on health. Understood in the context of island nations such as Australia and New Zealand, the experience of HI suggests that island locations can, by sustaining significant economic losses, reduce mortality for a year or more. (Australia and New Zealand saw higher outbreaks in later stages of the virus spread.) Interestingly, Maine opened its schools at almost triple the rate as Hawaii did and was able to achieve a health score almost as high.

Given the choice of sacrificing children's progress and economy for health it seems Hawaii got the results it wanted, based on my unofficial survey.