Hawaii scores a D on covid

[HawaiiEV]

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.

[randomq]

Damn teachers, not wanting to die from Covid...

Having a tourism based economy during a pandemic is not something you can fix on the fly either, though attracting more remote workers is a good idea.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Hawaii's strategy may result in healthier students in the long run?
Healthy teachers?
Healthy workers?
Long term COVID effects are hard to quantify, but there's a better chance our population will function at their optimal level.

[HawaiiEV]

There is no evidence of Covid spreading in schools among students, there is lots of evidence of teachers wanting to be paid without doing their job fully. Happen to be married to a teacher who wants to teach and wants to interact with students in person so I’m very familiar with the other teachers.

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As can be seen in evidence of Maine in the above study.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

As can be seen in evidence of Maine

So one state out of 50, charts compiled by a group called The Committee To Unleash Prosperity (I wonder what their prefered viewpoint on COVID numbers might be?) may or may not correlate with other states...

[HawaiiEV]

Does it surprise you a study lead by a Chicago economics school professor would be interested in economic prosperity? That’s the whole point of the study is balancing the prevalent health and fear based side of things with the other consequences involved. When they said two weeks to slow the spread and it turned into two years, the rational from our leaders was that we had to sacrifice the economy and schooling of children to preserve our health.

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Vermont also did well with mortality while keeping schools open.

[kalianna]

And after all, making money is THE most important thing. And why didnʻt "they" know that the pandemic would last more than two years in spring, 2020? Disgusting!

[HawaiiEV]

I don’t mean to offend with alternative perspectives, but given the economic situation we are in and worsening some might appreciate a difference of opinion. All the studies have shown the various levels of lockdowns had little to no consequence on the spread of covid, the study above however suggests islands might be the one place lockdowns might have been somewhat effective, although the rest of the islands that locked down heavily seem to be going through covid now, so maybe it’s just a delay effect.

[kalakoa]

I don’t mean to offend with alternative perspectives,

...and yet you keep trying.

[Chas]

Yeah, hindsight vision is always 20/20