We can’t help but notice the striking similarity of this table constructed by our friend Paul Winfree at Heritage with our own previous analyses of lockdown severity. California now has a lower productivity rank than Georgia and Massachusetts now has a lower productivity rate than Montana. Winfree points out: “if California had acted more like Arizona, inflation wouldn’t be as bad as it is because higher productivity would have absorbed some of the government spending.” And higher productivity would have also raised worker wages.