Slovakia has been hailed by outlets like The Atlantic for their Covid response, mostly because they mandated masks extremely early and their leaders “led by example” by wearing them
Wonder if we’ll see any updates now that their rates have exploded? Somehow I doubt it!
Oh and even more recently, a study in the UK said mass testing in Slovakia cut the infection rate by 60%. Literally a few days after they published, infections rose again and are now higher than they’ve ever been
Los Angeles County reported over 22,400 new cases today, one of the highest numbers reported by any STATE during the entire outbreak
Cases are up 2269% since the initial mask mandate &
349% since they put in a curfew & closed outdoor dining
None of this works. None of it.
I know that the mask cult will always say it would have been worse without masks, but a 2,269% increase is uh…bad.
The recent case curve is literally a straight line up. It cannot get worse than that.
I do not know how you could do worse than the combination of some of the worst Covid rates in the world, economic destruction, and massive restrictions on freedom and liberty than what LA has done in 2020.
It is a masterpiece of incompetence that only LA could achieve
So the BBC, with an assist from some professional misinformation specialists in universities, has gotten into the mask lies spreading game, with an atrocious article saying masks worked in Brookings County, South Dakota compared to others in SD
Here’s a thread on how they lied
They chose to start on 9/1, because they got to ignore that Brookings saw a huge increase throughout August. Starting from 8/1 shows the month long growth
At peak on 9/7 Brookings had a case rate 242% higher than Minnehaha, on 11/30 Minnehaha was only 62% higher than Brookings
They also ignored that cases were already on the way down before the mandate & the decline actually stopped and starting going up 2 weeks after the mandate
No explanation for why it wasn’t until early November that Brookings did better, and still had the highest rate in October
@ConceptualDoc I gotta tell ya, your combo of intellectual dishonesty, willful ignorance and hypocrisy is incredibly frustrating.
And the German study and links you’ve posted are much worse than “memes” because they’re essentially lying with credentials.
Leading some susceptible people into thinking they have value when they don’t.
It’s fine to not control for other variables as long as “peers” sign off.
Compliance data is inaccurate, but your anecdotal assumptions are fine.
These countries that don’t use masks at all and have lower death and case rates aren’t relevant because I say they aren’t, because their conclusions poke giant holes in my assumptions.
It’s pretty bleak and frustrating that you’re so unable to understand your own bias
If you were wondering if the CDC would start acknowledging that masks have completely and utterly failed, they’re now recommending that people wear them inside their homes, especially if you’ve been in a crowded public setting…where masks are almost always required anyway
Because masks are so effective and important, that you can’t believe they worked when you used them in that crowded public setting.
If at first your policies fail over and over and over again, keep failing, but even stupider this time!
Seriously, this is insanity. Masks have completely failed all over the United States. Total, unquestioned disastrous failure. So what do they do? Say they’re even MORE effective than they thought previously, and maintain that wearing them in public isn’t even enough