As Cases Plummet In Florida, New Data Show Forcibly Masking Kids Made No Difference

New data coming out of Florida school districts show virtually zero difference between masked vs. unmasked counties, even as Covid-19 cases plummet across the state.

Leftists hellbent on forcibly masking every child in schools across the country never had any solid data to back up their position, only emotional pleas and scare tactics. In truth, however, this virus has never posed any statistical risk to children, nor were they a significant transmitter to adults. And besides, if teachers were vaccinated, what were they worried about?

While many districts refused to implement mask mandates in their schools, others stubbornly insisted upon them, even defying an order from Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to allow parental exemptions. We were assured that the masked counties would fare far better than the 'Wild West' unmasked ones, where the bodies of schoolchildren would presumably be stacked in the streets, or something.

Except, none of that happened (via press release from DeSantis' press secretary, Christina Pushaw):

New COVID-19 cases for children ages 5-17 – the vast majority of the school-aged population – have decreased 79% in the month of September, in the 54 Florida counties where school districts have no masking policy or are following state law by honoring the parental opt-out rule.

For comparison, COVID-19 cases for children 5-17 in the 13 districts that imposed forced-masking in schools have decreased 77%, on average.

The 54 districts with opt-outs or no mask policy have seen an average decrease of 65% in positivity from week ending Aug. 19 (when school started) to the week ending Sep. 30.

The 13 districts that broke the law to impose forced-masking have seen an average decrease of 67%.

That is to say, the data for this school year to date shows no impact of forced masking in schools on pediatric COVID-19 prevalence. This is not surprising, since there were no statistically significant differences in case rates in forced-masking versus mask-optional schools during the 2020-21 school year in Florida.

Meanwhile, Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to decline across the state, despite largely maskless schools and no governmental vaccine mandates (via press release).

At 27 new infections per 100,000 people, Florida now has the second lowest rate of COVID-19 infection in the entire country. Since the August 25 peak, the number of estimated infections by Nowcasting (covidestim.org) has decreased 95.9 percent. The reproductive transmission number (Rt) statewide is at 0.49 from a peak value of 1.45 on July 15.

At 4.8% positivity rate over the past 7 days, Florida would now be considered “low transmission” according to CDC guidance. Cases on a 7 day average have fallen 77 percent in the past month alone. The number of cases reported yesterday was the lowest since July 5.

COVID-19 hospitalizations are down to 4,562. This is a decrease of 73% since the August 22 peak, and more than 40 consecutive days of decline. According to HHS data updated today, just 8.45% of inpatient beds in Florida hospitals are being used for COVID-19 patients. This is lower than the national average of 9.71%.

As usual, the hard data supports sanity and normalcy not just in America's schools, but for everyone else as well.

https://ivmmeta.com/

I just went to it and it worked.

As for the size:

The total of all the studies at that site comprise of 47,641 subjects and 639 authors.

The Peer-reviewed studies have 17,216 subjects and 474 authors.

The randomized control trials have 6,548 subjects and 371 authors.

As for the details, each trial is discussed in depth - if you click on a trial it takes you to a discussion as well as original trial source

You claim that there is a recommended safe dose - what is that exactly? There has not been any “official” statement to what is the recommended dose for treatment because the people in charge are ignoring the studies that WERE controlled. The doctors who are not ignoring the research are coming up with dosage recommendations and those are the same ones being referred to on FR, such as FLCCC https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FLCCC-Alliance-I-MASKplus-Protocol-ENGLISH.pdf

and

Dr. Zelenko: https://vladimirzelenkomd.com/treatment-protocol/

More people WOULD be doing this under a doctor’s care if the treatment was not so wrongfully maligned and they were not threatened with losing their jobs and/or medical license.

As for the rest of your statement, you need to go to the link I sent, read the studies, and the discussions, and you will see these are well-controlled, well-conducted trials. The site also gives dozens more links to studies that were not part of the metanalysis with explanations of the issues and flaws that made them unreliable.

I just went to it and it worked.

I went to it after lunch and it worked. I'm starting to read some of the studies. So far, I have more questions than answers. The glaring one is that there is no consistent pattern of success between them. Some are roaring successes, some are dismal failures. The ones that were used with combined treatments are far and wide in regards to the secondary treatments. For instance, we are starting to learn that monoclonal antibodies are having a high rate of success if given in a timely manner. Just because they were given in conjunction with Ivermectin doesn't mean that Ivermectin was the deciding factor. There is a lot to read here.

You claim that there is a recommended safe dose - what is that exactly?

There is no reccommended safe dose for use against covid. But, the dosage reccommended for approved applications can be found below.

https://www.drugs.com/dosage/ivermectin.html#Precautions

After you read the above link, you should read this:

"Ivermectin has been shown to inhibit the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in cell cultures. However, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies suggest that achieving the plasma concentrations necessary for the antiviral efficacy detected in vitro would require administration of doses up to 100-fold higher than those approved for use in humans." From the link below:

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/antiviral-therapy/ivermectin/

A lot of the Ivermectin trials end up rebutted like this one:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8097313/

At 27 new infections per 100,000 people, Florida now has the second lowest rate of COVID-19 infection in the entire country.
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FL is on track to have the lowest infection rate in the country by the end of October.

Gonna be fun to watch the media deal with that.

The discussions for the studies explain why some were such failures, I recommend you read those as well as the studies.

If your mind is already made up, I’m sure none of them will convince you.

I have read monoclonal success stories and some where it had no effect. But I would probably still try it if I met the criteria, which I don’t.

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