Politico made a "pandemic scorecard". Keeping in mind their left-leaning reporting, I thought this was an interesting chart for a couple of general reasons:
First, the intermixing of states that really locked down and states that just went about their business. For instance, in Idaho we gave up on lockdown crap very early on, but showed up at #4 on this chart. While locked-down Maryland beat us on the list, states like CA were much farther down. We didn't score highly on things like mask mandates, but we exceled at keeping our economy going and getting kids back in school.
Second, the criteria was not just health. Rather than look strictly at infections and deaths, they looked at several other factors, like economy and education, which, long term, are certainly as important as initial response to infection. Idaho didn't score highly on things like mask mandates and vaccines, but we exceled at keeping our economy going and getting kids back in school. Other states scored highly in the health category, but at the expense of things like putting their kids years behind in education.
Just kind of an interesting look to me at the costs and benefits of various response strategies.
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2021/covid-by-the-numbers-how-each-state-fared-on-our-pandemic-scorecard/
