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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

The Trump virus has murdered over a billion people .
Where’s the outrage ??


81 posted on 10/27/2020 3:39:18 PM PDT by A strike (FrontTowardEnemy)
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To: conservative98

Nope.


82 posted on 10/27/2020 3:42:40 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: tomkat

From 3/2/20 to 10/27/20

Total 7 months

Deaths
226K

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1DIEZ_enUS767US767&ei=3KGYX769Gfu0ytMPgZuy4As&q=covid+count+us&oq=covid+count+us&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzILCAAQsQMQgwEQyQMyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAA6BwgAEEcQsAM6BwgAELEDEEM6CAgAELEDEIMBOgQIABBDOgUIABCxAzoJCAAQyQMQFhAeOgYIABAWEB5Q4k9Y5Ftgt11oA3AAeACAAU6IAZcCkgEBNZgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrIAQfAAQE&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwi-m7be69XsAhV7mnIEHYGNDLwQ4dUDCA0&uact=5

Somebody better get busy if they want another 285,000 in just the next 3 months.


83 posted on 10/27/2020 3:43:05 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: A Navy Vet
Masks do nothing. Touching infected objects and then touching the face is what is spreading Corvid. No matter how much a store/shop cleans, a Corvid positive client can touch those places and a Covid negative person can touch them before the cleaning crew goes back over those spots. Then people touch their eyes or rub their nose and new case. I detailed my Wife and my protocol on a number of threads. We are disease free.

i don't know what your protocol is but we don't shake hands and always use hand sanitizer after every encounter in a public place.

84 posted on 10/27/2020 3:47:03 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: conservative98

“...Could saved..”
Or it couldn’t;
or by January;
or by March;
or by July;
or by 2022;
And on, and on, and on....


85 posted on 10/27/2020 3:47:27 PM PDT by exinnj
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To: conservative98

How many are done listening to “projections”?

I don’t believe any of them. They’re still figuring out just how this virus transmits, we know there’s false positive tests, and deaths attributed to COVID even if it were due to a motorcycle incident.

Then there’s the fact that we’ve been wearing masks for months, did the contraction rate plummet as was predicted? No. Yes, we’re testing more but (as stated we don’t know how many false positives) there’s no evidence that the masks are doing much.

So hearing about these new projections based on everyone having been wrong to date, having bad data, and making incorrect predictions...this is all BS.

And I haven’t even mentioned the potential for political false reporting and fear mongering.

If all we’re doing is stretching out the period of time the virus is around, how does that result in saving lives? It doesn’t mean net fewer people get it.

Given the behavior of this virus it seems obvious what the right policy should be - everyone under 50 in good shape should hang out, spread the virus as fast as possible, get over it, and cross the threshold of “new contractions needed for the virus to survive”...so the older folks and those with health issues can come back out of the woodwork. Sooner vs. later. Of course, I hear today that people that get over it quickly don’t build up antibodies!!! OF COURSE THEY DON’T!!! That would mean such a strategy wouldn’t work!

...then I can look at Sweden. They’ve not locked down like everyone else and their DEATHS PER DAY are in the single digits. This is all insane. It’s all about control and convincing us that the collective supersedes individual, Constitutional, rights.


86 posted on 10/27/2020 3:52:43 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: JoSixChip

I’d say about 60% are wearing masks.


87 posted on 10/27/2020 3:53:48 PM PDT by a real Sheila (Love my golden retrievers!)
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To: who knows what evil?
Mask mandates imposed = cases skyrocket. Nothing to see here, folks.

If people wear a mask in a supermarket, but then go to a bar and talk loudly over the music, where are they going to spread? Also, masks probably don't stop superspreaders from spreading in some settings (call center, meat plant, or any other indoor interaction for more than 10-20 minutes. They probably cut down the spread in shorter interactions. But those are low risk anyway and masks only stop a portion of droplets.

Closing bars would help the most, but we have to live. The bottom line is we have to accept the risk and live with the disease. There's no harm in wearing masks but probably no point in doing so in most cases.

88 posted on 10/27/2020 3:56:21 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.

Link?

89 posted on 10/27/2020 3:57:00 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: A Navy Vet
Touching infected objects and then touching the face is what is spreading Corvid.

No, that's not correct. The church choir (and 100's of incidents since) proved that it spreads by air.

90 posted on 10/27/2020 3:57:58 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: conservative98

I got all of that. You do what you need to do to protect your health as best you can and I will do the same. I live in a state (CA) that has more issues than you can shake a stick at... But I would rather petition my Governor for action or change than having to petition the federal governor...


91 posted on 10/27/2020 3:58:11 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: backwoods-engineer
If Trump agrees to this, I WILL STAY HOME ON ELECTION DAY.

Every four years you say if blah blah blah I will stay home on election day.

92 posted on 10/27/2020 4:00:29 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: palmer
The bottom line is we have to accept the risk and live with the disease. There's no harm in wearing masks but probably no point in doing so in most cases.

100% agree.

93 posted on 10/27/2020 4:03:47 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: conservative98
Fauci, pulling more statistical numbers out of his ass. It makes one wonder about the veracity of his research at NIH with his propensity to make up data.
94 posted on 10/27/2020 4:05:20 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: who knows what evil?
Oh, and don't forget to elbow bump. That's much more effective than masks proven by SCIENCE.


95 posted on 10/27/2020 4:08:31 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: palmer
CDC, according to this article by Dr. Joseph Mercola.
96 posted on 10/27/2020 4:11:43 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: conservative98

Take your Vitamin D and zinc and you will lessen the impact if you get it.


97 posted on 10/27/2020 4:16:32 PM PDT by DCmarcher-976453
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To: conservative98

Anybody else sick of “studies” and “polls”?


98 posted on 10/27/2020 4:17:22 PM PDT by desertfreedom765
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To: desertfreedom765

And “modeling”. Check the totals on February 1st to see if we added antother 300,000 deaths without a national mask mandate like this model says. Not plausible.


99 posted on 10/27/2020 4:30:23 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Cobra64

The institute Fauci heads is part of HHS.


100 posted on 10/27/2020 4:34:07 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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