Posted on 03/05/2021 4:28:50 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
As officials in Texas and Mississippi lifted statewide mask mandates, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offered fresh evidence of the importance of mask use in a new study on Friday. Wearing masks, the study reported, was linked to fewer infections with the coronavirus and Covid-19 deaths in counties across the United States
The researchers also found that counties opening restaurants for on-premises dining — indoors or outdoors — saw a rise in daily infections about six weeks later, and an increase in Covid-19 death rates about two months later
The study does not prove cause and effect, but the findings square with other research showing that masks prevent infection and that indoor spaces foster the spread of the virus through aerosols, tiny respiratory particles that linger in the air.
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I read that there were three deaths at Woodstock. Should that be part of mentioning the event every time? Of course not, because they were not caused by going to Woodstock. Same as all the deaths related to the January 6 event except for the shooting of one unarmed woman.
They can’t stand the thought of people walking around without a fear-muzzle on.
I try to keep a 528ft. social distance from strangers.
Please read my tagline and help it to succeed.
States need to change their constitution so that there is a time limit on any state of emergency called by the governor. After that time limit an extension would need to go through the state legislature as with a law. We have turned this country into a dictatorship with many governors acting as a mini dictator over their own state.
COVID19 is an extortion racket
they waited until a huge crop of baby boomers turned to seed and here comes the grim reaper to roll out the viru$.
Bill Gates is one of the "they" and he is the wretched human who invented the computer virus (and the Zika viru$ ) extortion rackets, left a Windows open to let it in, then people had to pay or Norton would send them a virus
This virus is very similar but is way more profitable
Sadly this disease may be more political than medical and so all statistics are murky. What computers do best is crunch lots of numbers. We could’ve known long ago exactly the prevalence and severity of this coronavirus.
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Was in Indy in June at it was pretty much open.
Few masks at grocery stores. I got to see strangers smile!!! I never realized how that was a wonderful part of my life.
The face burka is to cut off our emotional necessary socialization. A way to control.
Was trained to work in an O.R. Was taught masks where worn in that situation to stop bacteria we may breath out from getting in a patients wound.
In a size comparison of bacteria and virus size....a bacteria is the size of your head and a virus is the size of you pupil. This mandatory mask stuff isn’t using real science.
that would only work if we had free and fair elections.....so the first step would need to be to restore the electoral process
Yes, and a multitude of other lifestyle and health variables would have to be controlled in order to insure the validity of results.
We should be fine here. We’ve been dining in restaurants for a lot longer than 2 months.
No
and you know dang well if there were spikes it would have been headline news for weeks.
Agree human avarice is at work. Still contemplating what else may be going on. This whole thing has a stench I can’t yet define.
Stuff it, Fauci.
Yeah that’s the Democrat plan. Permanently close any public social activities to more closely align with their base, living virtually in their parents basement.
Gang, Antifa and BLM are the only authorized group activities.
Maybe the events, travel, tourism and sports (with fans) industries will come back in 2024, after the Trump landslide?
Until then, plenty of minimum wage part-time McJobs for all.
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During March 1–December 31, 2020, state-issued mask mandates applied in 2,313 (73.6%) of the 3,142 U.S. counties. Mask mandates were associated with a 0.5 percentage point decrease (p = 0.02) in daily COVID-19 case growth rates 1–20 days after implementation and decreases of 1.1, 1.5, 1.7, and 1.8 percentage points 21–40, 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after implementation (p<0.01 for all) (Table 1) (Figure). Mask mandates were associated with a 0.7 percentage point decrease (p = 0.03) in daily COVID-19 death growth rates 1–20 days after implementation and decreases of 1.0, 1.4, 1.6, and 1.9 percentage points 21–40, 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after implementation (p<0.01 for all). Daily case and death growth rates before implementation of mask mandates were not statistically different from the reference period.
During the study period, states allowed restaurants to reopen for on-premises dining in 3,076 (97.9%) U.S. counties. Changes in daily COVID-19 case and death growth rates were not statistically significant 1–20 and 21–40 days after restrictions were lifted. Allowing on-premises dining at restaurants was associated with 0.9 (p = 0.02), 1.2 (p<0.01), and 1.1 (p = 0.04) percentage point increases in the case growth rate 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after restrictions were lifted (Table 2) (Figure). Allowing on-premises dining at restaurants was associated with 2.2 and 3.0 percentage point increases in the death growth rate 61–80 and 81–100 days, respectively, after restrictions were lifted (p<0.01 for both). Daily death growth rates before restrictions were lifted were not statistically different from those during the reference period, whereas significant differences in daily case growth rates were observed 41–60 days before restrictions were lifted.
Good grief they’re fast to attack the opening states! I was just wondering how quickly we’d see “news” about the opening of businesses and allowing people to enjoy liberty would be quashed with fear. Presto! Already done!
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