You guys seem to forget, 24 Dem governors and 19 GOP governors eventually implemented lockdowns. The GOP governors were late to do it, but eventually did it. The data at the time told them that their hospitals would get overwhelmed at that rate. Some of you are smart enough to analyze the data and the actions taken at the time but that’s what happened. You can conspiracy theory it all you want. The fact that hospitals in red states had to take the unprecedented step of implementing crisis standards of care in red states should tell you why they went down that path.