Posted on 10/27/2020 2:39:53 PM PDT by conservative98
That, in addition to survey evidence showing that people are still not wearing masks in public places, led Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the last three decades, to advocate for a national mask mandate. Previously, Fauci has generally stopped short of saying that the American people should be required to wear masks under a mandate.
The authors of the new University of Washington study arrived at their figures by using a model based on the following assumptions:
If closer to 85% of the U.S. population wore masks in public, under the same assumptions above, the researchers calculated that 96,000 lives would be saved between September 2020 and February 2021.
In the absence of a universal mask mandate, the researchers forecast that approximately 511,000 people total will have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. by February 2021.
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
Nope.
I voted today, at my poll in the suburbs less than 20% of the voters had masks. Of course, all the workers did. Everyone waited in line outside until stepping inside to vote.
One thing the mask-wearing does, is it looks like you’re on the team. We all alone in this together!
Since the public can only hold small pieces of info, hand washing has fallen by the wayside. Unlike signalling your team spirit by mask wearing, no one can tell you’ve washed your hands. Which is probably our best tool in preventing the spread.
Reminds me of another science scam but I can't quite put my finger on it ...
I have two words for Tony, and they are not Happy Birthday. This phony is an embarrassment to all Americans of Italian ancestry.
Just dont wear one. I dont.
All you mask people are deranged. You all would probably wear them as you get loaded onto the boxcars going to the extermination camp.
Everything it seems is about social engineering and control.
So much for live and let live.
HEY! You DONT have to wear a mask to buy groceries. Walk into the store without a mask and NO ONE WILL STOP YOU!
I have not worn a mask in a grocery store ...EVER. Or Walmart. Or a restaurant. Or Staples. Or anywhere else.
Good God, dont you people have a backbone?
You DESERVE to be dominated.
What do you care?
How are they going to enforce the mandate?
They wont have to. The cowards will meekly obey because, by golly, there was a sign on the door.
In the 14 days before illness onset, 71% of case-patients and 74% of control- participants reported always using cloth face coverings or other mask types when in public.
Masks made no effective difference, protecting 74% of negatives and failing to protect 71% of positives. However the next sentence in the report is important:
Close contact with one or more persons with known COVID-19 was reported by 42% of case-patients compared with 14% of control-participants (p<0.01), and most (51%) close contacts were family members.
As one might expect, the got the COVID from a close contact at home where it's safe to say nobody had a mask on.
About 1/2 of those people got it at home so the public masking was useless but also irrelevant from a policy perspective. I linked the report in my previous comment.
de-funding covid is the only way to beat this virus
He can advocate all he wants. No one in theFederal Government can mandate it. Good luck with that.
the corporations/national chains going along with this junk science are a huge part of the problem
Sorry but No!
Where have I heard the words ... uh, hum .. Oh yeah: “It’s My body, It’s My choice!”
If you want to wear a mask .. It’s Your body, It’s Your choice! 8-)
Imho, this virus has been but an excuse for the biggest political con/scam/statist extortion racket in our nation's history.
Im sure Biden approves.
Fear is all he has left to run on.
Fauci is a democrap...golly, who knew?
It wont work.
I think we both agree with each other but are talking past each other...Anyway take care and stay healthy!
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