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Fauci is advocating for a national mask mandate — it could save 130,000 lives by February, study finds
Market Watch ^ | October 27, 2021 | Elisabeth Buchwald

Posted on 10/27/2020 2:39:53 PM PDT by conservative98

Dr. Anthony Fauci recently called for a national mask mandate

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakenews; fauci; fauxi; maskmandate; masks; modeling; models; study
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To: conservative98

Nope.


101 posted on 10/27/2020 4:38:23 PM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act')
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To: JoSixChip

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.


102 posted on 10/27/2020 4:42:29 PM PDT by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: conservative98
It is an academic "study" based on a "model" built by ... the same academics. This is their so-called "science."

Reminds me of another science scam but I can't quite put my finger on it ...

103 posted on 10/27/2020 4:42:38 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: conservative98

I have two words for Tony, and they are not Happy Birthday. This phony is an embarrassment to all Americans of Italian ancestry.


104 posted on 10/27/2020 4:45:03 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: tbpiper

Just don’t wear one. I don’t.


105 posted on 10/27/2020 4:56:14 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (F God bless Donald Trump.)
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To: conservative98

All you mask people are deranged. You all would probably wear them as you get loaded onto the boxcars going to the extermination camp.


106 posted on 10/27/2020 4:59:36 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (F God bless Donald Trump.)
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To: conservative98

Everything it seems is about social engineering and control.

So much for live and let live.


107 posted on 10/27/2020 5:11:56 PM PDT by desertfreedom765
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To: tbpiper

HEY! You DON’T 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, don’t you people have a backbone?

You DESERVE to be dominated.


108 posted on 10/27/2020 5:14:43 PM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: palmer

What do you care?


109 posted on 10/27/2020 5:16:37 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: Destroyer Sailor

How are they going to enforce the mandate?

They won’t have to. The cowards will meekly obey because, by golly, there was a sign on the door.


110 posted on 10/27/2020 5:19:18 PM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: who knows what evil?
That article has a sign-up wall. But here's the source from CDC https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6936a5-H.pdf

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.

111 posted on 10/27/2020 5:22:20 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: alloysteel
Some 70% of the newly diagnosed COVID cases are contracted by persons who wear a mask regularly.

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.

112 posted on 10/27/2020 5:23:50 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: Cobra64
Hospitals get bonus money from the Feds for Covid-related deaths.

de-funding covid is the only way to beat this virus

113 posted on 10/27/2020 5:24:51 PM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: backwoods-engineer
You're predictable.
114 posted on 10/27/2020 5:24:52 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: conservative98

He can advocate all he wants. No one in theFederal Government can “mandate” it. Good luck with that.


115 posted on 10/27/2020 5:29:36 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: conservative98

the corporations/national chains going along with this junk science are a huge part of the problem


116 posted on 10/27/2020 5:36:22 PM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: abigkahuna

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-)


117 posted on 10/27/2020 5:37:17 PM PDT by justme4now (Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
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To: conservative98
If we ever hear the real numbers someday, I be willing to bet that about 2/3 of that '226K' will have been found to have succumb with KungFlu and not from KungFlu.

Imho, this virus has been but an excuse for the biggest political con/scam/statist extortion racket in our nation's history.

118 posted on 10/27/2020 5:41:55 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: conservative98

I’m sure Biden approves.
Fear is all he has left to run on.
Fauci is a democrap...golly, who knew?
It won’t work.


119 posted on 10/27/2020 5:42:30 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: justme4now

I think we both agree with each other but are talking past each other...Anyway take care and stay healthy!


120 posted on 10/27/2020 5:43:03 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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