It's my pleasure to welcome you here to the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you

and that wall of yours.

I want you to learn ideas to me so you can keep more of what you have.

So there's been a big debate that has gone on in the country state by state about when

state should open up what activities people should be free to do and all the rest.

And it has been something that has been very contentious in some states where there

have been residents who have been very unhappy with state restrictions on activity.

And then there were eight states that have never had any restrictions on activity never

went into any form of lockdown.

Well I was stunned to read something that just absolutely blew me away.

So it's data based on how people have been spending in states that had strict lockdowns

and states that had no lockdowns.

And so they looked at states with strict lockdowns like California, New York, New Jersey,

Illinois and Louisiana had a strict one for a while versus those eight states that had

no lockdown.

The stunner according to Baron's magazine is that there was virtually no difference in

how much economic activity reduced in states that had strict lockdowns versus states that

had no lockdowns.

So spending declined for what's known as discretionary spending by a little more than 30% in states

that had strict lockdowns and slightly less than 30% in states that had no lockdown.

How could that be?

The reason is that polling by Gallup found that people overwhelmingly are waiting to see

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