Covaids has been an acid test for people's beliefs. Generally, it seems, people have no independent thoughts, especially when they're afraid, and can easily be led into confinement with even less complaints than a farm animal. When you combine that state of mind with a malignant or even just maternalistic government, it led to lockdowns and facemask wearing.
It was little more than a hunch by a handful of people that led to the facemask wearing. They thought it would "slow the spread" or whatever slogan, but in retrospect it seems like it did nothing at all except lead to a bunch of extra litter blowing around. If there really were a plague, the facemasks on the ground would be like bio-hazards, but since there's just the cold and flu season they're just like any other garbage.
Ohio's been proven to be a shitty state with shitty people running it. There's probably no more or less foolish and easily duped people than any other state, but the government is bad. It's sort of an approximation of an east coast Blue state, but is not quite as bad a Michigan or Illinois in that regard. The most blue states seem to be turning into versions of the soviet union with very heavy handed controls of individuals and businesses. Ohio's government, at least the governor, wants to turn into that too, but there's enough opposition that it probably won't happen as quickly as it will in the heavily blue states.
The states that are in the clear are shown in the chart above. Many of them did not go along with the covid narrative very much, and in one case, not at all (South Dakota). It's actually hard to come up with a common theme for the free states. Florida and Georgia, for example, don't match the other free states demographically, for example, and conversely there's other states that are really similar to the free states demographically, but which went to absurd lengths to control their population, e.g. KY.
If it's not demographics, what is it? I don't really know. I'm wondering if there's more corporate influence, that is corruption, in the slave states than in the free states. I know many of those states that are "free" also have decent government and are well managed fiscally, that is, they have a low debt per household and minimal government debt, or pension obligations. The worst managed states tend to be the most corrupt and corporate controlled. Ohio is one of those unfortunately.
I lived in Nashville in 2010. It is significantly different culturally from Ohio. I'd say it's more social and easy-going. For example, if you go to an outdoor restaurant in the city of Nashville there will probably be multiple people who have a well behaved dog sitting with them by their table and nobody is a busybody about it. There's no state income tax. Tennessee is literally the birthplace of the Jacksonian era, which was an implementation of the ideas of Thomas Jefferson, who's really the pro-freedom, pro-yeoman founding father. Ohio, on the other hand, is sort of a progenitor of this current corporate controlled federal government from its early history and is literally the home base of the Rockefeller family.
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