
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Trenton NJ, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy like to say his decisions are based on science and data. New Jersey leads the nation in COVID-19 deaths per capita. It leads the world. If New Jersey were a country, its death rate of 249 deaths per 100,000 residents would rank it ahead of every nation on Earth.
And that data suggests the the governors handling of the pandemic should come under close scrutiny . This data is damning, and further supports a call for a bipartisan investigation with subpoena power to get to the bottom of why more than 8,000 Nursing home residents died under Governor Murphy’s watch.
NJ has the highest population density in the nation, so it should be no surprise the COVID death rate is the highest.
I am not defending that goof-ball in Trenton, who will be re-elected in a landslide.
I am certain of his re-election because we have 2 idiot Senators and an entire cadre of idiots in the Legislature. It takes a special kind of stupid to rank dead last of 50 states in fiscal health.