See, the states that lost their minds over COVID were, at the absolute best, extremely shortsighted. It was a disease that didn’t really hurt the healthy, as a general thing, though it sucks balls if you get it, and it didn’t impact the young nearly as bad as, say, the elderly.

Yet when they locked down, they drew a line in the sand. People who wanted no part of that stupidity are now seeing where else they can go, and the South didn’t play those games for nearly as long, so who gets to benefit?

Now, some of the best and brightest are leaving their home states and heading south for warmer climates, less progressive stupidity—though, admittedly, they’re going to college. That means they can’t avoid that flavor of stupidity entirely—and less chance of a repeat of lockdowns in the future.