Posted on 12/29/2020 6:28:29 AM PST by george76
A poll out last week found that 75% of Americans say they support a nationwide mask mandate to fight COVID-19. Why shouldn’t they, since the public has been told repeatedly by politicians and public health officials that these steps will slow the spread of the disease and save lives.
Yet new research provides clear evidence that – whatever the lab results of mask-wearing and disease spread might suggest – real-world mask mandates do little, if anything, to slow COVID-19.
The survey, conducted by STAT and the Harris Poll, found there is a partisan split on a mask mandate: 60% of Republicans favor a mandate, compared with more than 85% of Democrats.
Joe Biden promises that, once in the White House, he will order masks on federal property and interstate travel, while pressing state and local leaders to push for mandates. The oft-repeated claim is that this would save hundreds of thousands of lives.
But that is largely based on experimental data, which show that, when worn properly, masks are very effective in preventing the disease from being spread, and provide protection among wearers from getting it.
Too bad the real-world evidence – you know, the stuff scientists rely on to test their theories – doesn’t support any of this.
As we noted in this space back in November, the vast majority of new cases reported during the spike in coronavirus cases came in the 33 states that already had statewide mask mandates. We noted, too, that most of the remaining states had mandates in place covering their major urban areas.
Now there’s new evidence that shows our suspicions were dead on.
For example, a Danish study that included 6,000 participants undercut the “science” behind the mandates. A control group followed social distancing guidelines but didn’t wear masks, while another group wore high-quality surgical masks. It found no statistically significant difference between the two groups.
“The researchers concluded that mask-wearing is compatible with a range of outcomes — from a 46% reduction in infections to a 23% increase,” according to the Center for Data Analysis at the Heritage Foundation.
The CDA also looked at county-level data in the U.S. on the rate of COVID’s spread and existing mask mandates.
It found that: “Of the 100 counties with the most confirmed cases during this period, 97 had either a county-level mask mandate, a state-level mandate, or both.” It went on to report that:
Of the 25 counties with the highest new case totals, all 25 had a mask mandate, and all but one implemented their directive prior to October; 21 of the counties implemented mandates prior to August.
The study also noted that Italy’s national mask mandate, in place since October 8, “did not arrest the growth in infection rates.”
Anyone who has looked around can understand why mask mandates aren’t effective. People don’t wear them properly, touch them repeatedly, don’t clean or dispose of used ones, etc.
By the way, research has also repeatedly found that wide-scale economic lockdowns are just as ineffective. Yet several states have reimposed lockdowns in one form or another as the disease started spreading again. And, as with mask mandates, lockdowns get strong public support.
That same STAT survey found that more than half say the government should once again shutter the economy by closing “non-essential businesses.”
So why the endless push for mandates and lockdowns, despite what the evidence shows? Could it be that Biden and company care more about exercising power and control over Americans than they do combating this disease?
Name one thing Biden has been correct as a career politician?
no masks (unlike needles, gloves, etc.) were collected
and burned.
they were supposed to SPREAD the disease,
mark the slaves, and increase the prevalence of the
disease by making the individual MORE LIKELY to get
sick enuf to be denied HCQ and put on a ventilator.
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Who cares and why are we wasting time on what siding and the cabal thinks? We all know this already. We need to focus our efforts on getting the truth out about the elections and defeating say evil. The Mask mandates that won’t happen anyway is a moot point in I really don’t care to spend any energy on it.
How about crime does pay if you do it the D.C. way? I think the Pantsuit Princess told him that. Or maybe it was the other way around.
Asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 didn’t occur at all, study of 10 million finds...
It’s getting harder to justify lockdowns.. Asymptomatic transmission has been the underlying justification of lockdowns..
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emerging diseases and zoonosis unit could not point to a single case of asymptomatic transmission,
BS CRAP. Biden will have everyone but elites in masks in their own homes, like virtual school kids are doing. Mandatory of a spanking new Vaccine, Mandatory be employers REGARDLESS OF FIRST AMENDMENT and health issues. Big fines, maybe forced vaccine while in 1 of his Gulaugs for Political/Rebellious people.
We don’t need experiments and studies to know that the masks protect only against sneezers. You have to breathe around the edges, and the fabric itself is too coarse to trap viruses. And there were not great numbers of disease-spreading sneezers before the mask mandates.
I hate Byedone but I think his idea of splitting Iraq into three separate countries was something to consider. The boundaries of the Arab states were arbitrary anyway because of the Balfour decision a century ago.
If Biden assumes the Office, dollars to donuts he will appoint her to some position.
The head of one of the largest regional health systems in the Midwest has recovered from covid and is back in the office — without a mask.. Sanford Health’s president and chief executive, Kelby Krabbenhoft, is now immune to the disease for “at least seven months and perhaps years to come” and that he isn’t a threat to transmit it to anyone, so wearing a mask would be merely for show.
Don’t think for a minute that if you receive the new vaccine you won’t still be compelled to wear a mask, social distance and shun contact with other humans all under the petty tyranny of Democrat Governors.
There is no end of this COVID nonsense because it gives the elites control over people’s lives. .
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Governments don’t like to be shown that their decisions were wrong; scientific studies be damned. Having mandated masks, the governors will continue to mandate masks. Forever.
All the institutions in this country have become so corrupted that it is getting useless to point out individual cases and concepts. McConnell is in control of the nation just now, and he is bent on turning it over to the control of his wife’s bosses in the CCP.
Biden will have everyone but elites in masks in their own homes, like virtual school kids are doing.
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I’m waiting for the executive orders mandating the wearing of masks for all dogs and cats, and when that doesn’t work, the mandated execution of all pets.
Think that sounds crazy? You can’t out-crazy the Left.
Biden says that the one-horse-pony-slammer should wear a mask. Nothing more needs to be said about Biden’s ability.
Interesting the large % of people who believe masks work. Shouldn’t be surprised, but the numbers starkly reflect a stupidity that’s been building for decades.
A mask is as effective at stopping a virus as a chain link fence is in stopping mosquitoes ..
Without first instilling widespread fear that also created widespread distrust, anger and depression among 300,000,000 American citizens, the lies would not have worked so well. The Democrat-Communist Party in America has executed their plan to destroy our economy and overturn our society and has enabled them, it may turn out, to achieve their primary objective all along: To steal a presidential election (with little effort at trying to hide it)!
The greatest prison people live in, is the fear of what others think..~ David Icke.
No one rules if no one obeys
It's not really about slowing COVID-19; it's about control.
If Biden takes office he'll mandate masks for a certain period of time. After that, COVID-19 will "magically" disappear, that is, they'll stop counting COVID-19 deaths. Biden will say, "If Trump had done this we would've saved 300,000 lives, and the MMM (Media Malpractice Mob) will echo chamber that back and forth until millions and millions of people believe it.
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