1/ Free states beat locked down states in #COVID19 survivability, from CDC data, updated yesterday.

This thread proves that #lockdown created HIGHER, not lower, covid death rates in locked down states.

2/ From CDC’s latest state data of 5/18/20,
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/
I show in this thread
that living in a free state vs a locked-down state
has given a 2.9% less chance of a death being from Covid-19
(or avg 2.9% survival bonus).

3/ The states that never locked down are:
Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming,
herein AR, IA, NE, ND, SD and WY.
Data for WY is not updated at the CDC, so we will exclude WY.

4/ States that never had lockdown
have a lower % of #COVID19 deaths / total deaths,
as I will show in the chart below.

That data comes from this chart at the CDC:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/

5/ Free states are bordering the following locked down states respectively:
Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Montana,
herein MS, LA, MO, MN, IL, KS, MT.

6/ So I compare data from
AR with MS, LA, OK & MO,
IA with MN, WI, MO & IL,
NE with KS, and
ND & SD with MT & MN.