So people didn't move during the pandemic? ok....Wrong.
A new study released Wednesday found no big exodus of people leaving California for other states during the COVID pandemic.
But California is still losing population to domestic migration, because fewer people than usual are moving in from other parts of the United States .
“Every single county has seen fewer people moving in from out of state since the start of the pandemic,” said the nonpartisan California Policy Lab.
Not sure how that proves anything wrong. The fleeing of Cali has been going on for years....I suppose one year it slowed due to a global pandemic....but the exodus is back on.
California loses congressional seat for first time

California loses congressional seat for first time
California loses one of 53 House seats after the 2020 Census found the Golden State's population growth is slowing. That's a first.

So many have left you lost seats in Congress.
People have been fleeing Cali so fast, that the Demafasict there proposed an "Exit Tax" - much like the Stalinist built the wall in Berlin to keep people from fleeing....