Here’s the thing about Paul Krugman: He’s wrong about everything. We’re not even exaggerating … we’ll happily do a post to celebrate the occasion when he gets something right. Krugman is drinking the Rebekah Jones Kool-Aid. We know it was a year ago, but we’ll repeat for Krugman, who works for the New York Times, so this is local news: It was the Cuomo administration that was cooking the books about COVID-19 fatalities. “New York publicizing lower COVID death count than fed figures,” reported the New York Post. If the Post is too right-wing for you, how about the Associated Press:
New York’s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes, already among the nation’s highest, could actually be a major undercount because it only counts residents who died on nursing home property, not those who died after being transported to hospitals. https://t.co/UrrtB9Cr9A
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 11, 2020
New York’s death toll “cloaked in secrecy.”
So Cuomo was pushing the same disinformation that Jones was pushing in Florida — he got off easy by resigning over sexual harassment.
On Sunday, Krugman showed how states whose governors didn’t promote COVID-19 disinformation lost far fewer people.
Adjusted for population, the Florida-equivalent death toll was
FL 59,170
CA 39,217
NY 39,551So states that didn't have governors promoting Covid disinformation and anti-tax propaganda lost far fewer people — the equivalent of ~20K excess in FL 4/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 13, 2022
“Anti-tax propaganda”?
Why didn't DeSantis pay a price for this? Because Covid victims die out of the public eye, offscreen as it were. A resident of Florida is ~20X as likely to die gratuitously from Covid as a resident of NY is to be murdered, but crime makes headlines while other deaths don't 5/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 13, 2022
COVID victims die out of the public eye, in nursing homes in New York.
And no, it's not about freedom. We're not talking about lockdowns and restrictions at this point, just about lifesaving shots that DeSantis deterred people from getting. Truly awesome 6/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 13, 2022
Children with bigger feet are better at mathematics, ….. because they are older.
Florida has higher mortality, because they are older.
Nobel laureate @paulkrugman could learn a thing or two from children with big feet. pic.twitter.com/B3J12E1sUo
— Martin Kulldorff (@MartinKulldorff) November 13, 2022
Sad that Nobel Laureate @nytimes economist I follow devotedly, does not know that death rate is exponentially dependent on population age.
The Florida population is older than NY, TX or CA. When excess death is normalized by expected death, FL is no worse than the other three. https://t.co/QeJATn1wAu pic.twitter.com/Y5GJ02wjgz
— Michael Levitt (@MLevitt_NP2013) November 14, 2022
Now try age-adjusted. Florida isn't even in the top 25. https://t.co/UyEuGv3hO6 https://t.co/Vktt1mQXn6
— Kelley K (@KelleyKga) November 13, 2022
A good example of how to lie with statistics
— Charles Michaels (@Michaelsfamily) November 13, 2022
Ha I just wrote this same response to someone else. He’s an activist economist, he misrepresents data for political purposes.
— Cynthia Holland (@cynthiasivi) November 13, 2022
You could say he’s spreading COVID disinformation.
Notice he ignores data prior to 2021.
That would be the time when a lot of people died in NY in nursing homes. Would kinda ruin his stats.
— eye95 ن (@eye95) November 13, 2022
If you look a couple of tweets up, he's not even counting half of the New York deaths, so even with no age adjustment he has to outright cheat to get his result
— anonymous historian and hat collector (@james_e_b_) November 13, 2022
When is the last time Krugman was right on anything?
— Paige Farr (@PaigeFarr1) November 13, 2022
Son did something on this in his senior year.
Age adjusted, FL and VT tied for lowest death rates.
— Sandy 〽️ (@RightGlockMom) November 14, 2022
That's whys it's so important to use ASMR's (Age Standardized Mortality Rates) in any objective analysis.
— Beh G. (@OracleOfIberia) November 14, 2022
Paul is tireless in demonstrating his ideological possession.
— Joe Walmach (@jcwalmach) November 13, 2022
We could learn never to listen to Paul Krugman again, about anything. But we never do, somehow.
— Joseph Miller (@dysangelistes) November 14, 2022
Paul Krugman's streak of never getting anything right is unbroken.
— James Dezelan (@dezelan_james) November 13, 2022
Krugman is, has been, and ever will be dishonest.
— Managing Life Today (@MLT76827137) November 14, 2022
Oh he knows… That's what makes it so cynical.
— Local Knowledge Problem (@MaxUtilitarian) November 13, 2022
We don’t think he does know. He’s just not that bright.
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Related:
'Brutal story for Andrew Cuomo': AP finds New York nursing home deaths 'could actually be a significant undercount' https://t.co/KTOzFZoigU
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 11, 2020