Posted on 03/07/2021 6:24:52 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
The CDC recommends wearing masks after their study showed that related to COVID, the results of wearing masks were statistically the same as the results when not wearing masks.
The results of a CDC study at first appear to show that wearing masks help reduce the spread of COVID.
The results were inside the statistical margin of error.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
That's been my point of view since at least April.
Trying to measure against state-wide mask mandates is especially stupid since, in almost every case, many people were already wearing masks and many businesses were already requiring them weeks before the state mandate. The "government decree" had little to do with public behavior.
Though not formally confirmed with testing, I am >99% certain my wife and I both contracted and survived COVID back in May of last year.... when we were hunkered down the hardest. It was like a worse than average case of the flu. Not a fun experience. But, we recovered.
Since then, we've also not hidden away. We go out to eat at least once every weekend. We've flown to Vegas three times. I wear my silly mask, the way it's supposed to be worn when and I wear I'm required. I don't assume it offers me any protection.
I think this virus, like most respiratory viruses, is spread as much or more by aerosols as by droplets. Hence, masks might slow the rate of transmission. But, they will NOT stop the inevitable. It was ALWAYS going to go everywhere, and it has.
I 100% agree with you. But, it's virtually impossible to get the blind to see this. They are consumed with fear.
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This is not necessarily their fault -- except for their consistent refusal to listen to any differing opinion or contrary fact -- it's that they have been lied to by people they trust: lied right into their face consistently, persistently and without any regard for their mental, physical and financial health for more than a full year of their lives!
Some claim they have not been sick this year prolly due to mask. I say 99% results is due to Hand washing.
Hi John Cleese and Arones.
That CDC table is utter nonsense.
Think about why.
“I went to the CDC to read the actual report. And this headline is the opposite of what the report says. The CDC does state that masks work—but the statistical evidence shown is very weak. The margins of error show that the positive effect is quite minimal.”
Yes.
Kind of weird, isn’t it.
And I am not an anti-mask advocate.
How high must that number go before we would approve of measures to reduce it?Wrong question for this article. The question is, "do masks reduce it?"
The GP article quotes from a tweet.
“The results were inside the statistical margin of error:
The results are inside the margin for statistical error
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 6, 2021”
I can think of 2 or 3 reasons.
Yes. Excellent analysis.
Study is nonsense.
And the GP author doesn’t understand p values.
Like I said.
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“And the GP author doesn’t understand p values.
Like I said.”
You claiming to understand that sentence?
“The results are inside the margin for statistical error”
Are you Hoft’s boyfriend?
“Are you Hoft’s boyfriend?”
You’ve degenerated quickly.
Can’t answer or be articulate, I see.
So you make puerile insult.
Sad.
The degeneration started when you posted. No need for articulate answers, when your only goal is to be a punk.
Hoft doesn’t understand p values or hypothesis testing.
Now I know that you don’t either.
“The degeneration started when you posted. No need for articulate answers, when your only goal is to be a punk.
Hoft doesn’t understand p values or hypothesis testing.
Now I know that you don’t either.”
Lol.
You seem to be too emotionally invested in this for rational thought or discourse.
The study found a correlation between mask mandates and decreases in increases of case rate of 0.7 to 1.9% over selected 20 day periods after the mandate. (Known as cherry picking) These modest decreases in rate of increase were found to be statistically significant.
The authors are well aware correlation does not equal causation and point out they did not control for other factors that could cause the correlation.
“First, although models controlled for mask mandates, restaurant and bar closures, stay-at-home orders, and gathering bans, the models did not control for other policies that might affect case and death rates...”
They do not conclude masks decreased cases or deaths, because they could not. The best they can say is “have a potential to slow the spread”.
“Community mitigation policies, such as state-issued mask mandates and prohibition of on-premises restaurant dining, have the potential to slow the spread of COVID-19, especially if implemented with other public health strategies (1,10).”
That is not a scientific conclusion and is not something we didn’t know prior to this study.
It’s really junk science in its poor design (or they modified design to present results that most reflected what they wanted to find).
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm
No in-deed. Last I checked there 27 states with a higher CFR than FL, and with NY, NY and MA leading the pack. Higher pop. density and winter does not help though.
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