So give Buck, and others, credit for pointing out – without the ranting that gets you tuned out – that our political ‘leaders’ have needlessly inflicted a lot of damage during this pandemic. America has enough problems to solve without one hand tied behind our back. – Damon C. Buck Sexton response: Damon, thanks for writing in. Indeed, while I may reach for the political flamethrower sometimes, when it comes to COVID-19 lockdowns, there’s too much at stake for the usual partisan
you made the choice you did and have enjoyed the benefits of it. But I’ve gotta tell you, your secret is out. Every week now, another New Yorker tells me that he or she is looking for a place in Florida to move to. The value proposition for paying NYC’s sky-high real estate and taxes just isn’t there anymore. So make some room for me in Palm Beach! I have often criticized Buck Sexton for his flame-throwing, all-in-for-Trump rhetoric but today I must praise him for a well-spoken, surprisingly moderate article that pointed out the simple fact that
food fights. The simple and easily observable fact is that lockdowns have been (at best) minimally effective at slowing
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Florida’s milder approach to lockdowns may have resulted in no greater number of deaths than states like New York and California. While many other factors may have been at play – poverty and health care access, population density, vacationers catching Covid in Florida and returning home to die elsewhere – the simple fact is that lockdowns have been very much driven by local politics and conditions, and the results have been irrational, intermittent and, so far, inconclusive. Crowded, mask-less “super-spreader” events (likeWhite House celebrations) may have been much more deadly than barber shops or airplanes but the overall lack of focused testing, tracking and consistent policymeans we may never know.
caseloads in the U.S. Given the enormous societal costs they impose, this is nowhere near enough to justify their continuation. But nobody in charge wants to admit they’ve been wrong all along. Hello Mr. Sexton. I read your piece on your vacation in Miami, and it seems hypocritical to me. You rail against the ‘lockdown liberals’ and the failure of Democratic- run states to keep businesses open, and then you complain
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about the politicizing of the pandemic. Don’t get me wrong, I am not a Democrat, I am a Libertarian. I call them like I see them, regardless of party affiliation. The real reason why we have the
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