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6 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
It’s been over three weeks since Alabama won the College Football National Title and had huge, maskless celebrations in the streets

Sports media, predictably, hysterically overreacted, predicting Covid disaster in Alabama two weeks afterwards

So what’s happened there?

Oh
Here’s a selection of stuff published immediately afterwards
@ByPatForde and @JGilesComedy did some good work
@InsideHoops Got nearly 11,000 likes on this one
I could go on and on and on. There are dozens of examples. But of course, they were all wrong. As they always are. And they never have to admit or acknowledge it.

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7 Feb
I posted about this yesterday but I wanted to revisit it because it cuts to the heart of what’s so insidious about the vacuous media coverage and the dangerous dishonesty of “experts”

According to the experts quoted in this story, Iowans were “scared” into mask compliance. ImageImageImage
They credit Iowa’s mask mandate in November for bringing the curve down, using anecdotal stories about increased compliance in grocery stores as “evidence”

They say there are no “anti-maskers” when the numbers go up. Because obviously the peasants start listening.
The experts in this unbelievable article are guilty of astonishing levels of misinformation. They just ignored that South Dakota followed the same exact curve and peaked at the same exact time without a mask mandates or increased compliance. Just ignored it. Image
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6 Feb
Ok so I already did a thread on today’s CDC nonsense, but it's even worse than I thought

The CA counties used in the study, supposedly proof of statewide mask mandates working, are Alameda, Contra Costa & SF

Their mandates were all in effect by 4/22. State wasn’t until 6/18
So when did they start counting data from these counties? Who knows! Every site has different starting periods.

But it makes absolutely no sense to use only three sites from a state that all had mandates months earlier, and pretend like the STATEWIDE mandate made any difference
Obviously, they also, of course, got to ignore the fall surge, which, you know, seems relevant.
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5 Feb
Sigh. More misinformation from the CDC to combat.

Ok fine, here we go.

There are many things here, but the easiest way to determine that this is complete garbage is check where the CDC decided to end their “study”.

Well that’s sure convenient, huh? Image
Somehow, the mask mandates also worked for one specific age group! That’s right! Over 65? No statistically significant difference. Under 40? Also no difference

But at least 40-64, must have been a big success, right?

Nope, 5.5% decrease in growth rate. That’s their claim. 5.5% Image
Let’s keep going. How about the limitations?

Well, no biggie, it didn’t capture anyone under 18, didn’t control for some policies that might also effect growth rates, only captured COVID-NET states, and most importantly didn’t look at local mandates, only state ones! Image
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5 Feb
Recently I posted how Collier County, FL, home of the horrifying unmasked grocery store video, had done so much better than counties in CA & AZ

Well here’s Charlotte County, which is essentially next door

Even though Collier’s not enforcing masks, Charlotte’s also doing worse
In fact, cumulatively, population adjusted deaths are 51% higher in Charlotte County, despite Collier’s lack of compliance

Lee County is in between them &Lee doesn’t have a mask mandate at all

And yet they’re also doing better cumulatively, despite being the highest density
Lee is actually ~4x the density of Charlotte County, but Charlotte’s death rate is 53% higher.

So why are Lee and Collier doing so much better than Charlotte, despite having an unenforced mandate and none at all?

Who cares? The science is crystal clear. Masks work.
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4 Feb
Oklahoma has provided an Epidemiological report every week, where they show data from cities w/ & w/out mask mandates

I want to draw your attention to this part, because it’s important:

The growth rate, during the biggest surge in cases, was the lowest in non-masked cities
There are many things to parse here, but growth rate is what the CDC loves to use in their “masks work” “studies”

And again, the no-mask areas did better in growth rate during the biggest surge in cases in Oklahoma.

For reference, 11/1 is marked, and the graph ends 1/12.
Let me repeat. During the biggest surge in cases in Oklahoma, non-mask cities did the best.

The point isn’t even the exact numbers, it’s that if masks were as important of an intervention as we’ve been told, this should not be possible.
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4 Feb
So @Cleavon_MD, in response to the video from Naples, said we should “let ‘em die” for not wearing masks

He’s a doctor in Yuma, AZ, where presumably they wear masks out of fear of not receiving treatment

So why has Yuma had so many more Covid deaths per million than Naples?
Beyond the threats of attention seeking, self-promoting Doctors, Yuma also will threaten you with up to 6 months in jail and a $2500 fine if you’re caught twice without one

We know that Naples is clearly not enforcing their mandate, and DeSantis specifically said no fines
Yuma is also significantly less dense, 35.5 per square mile vs. 187. Collier’s much older too, 50.8 vs. 34.6.

Yuma’s cumulative deaths per million is 214% higher.

At Yuma’s peak on 1/16, the 14-day avg was 426% higher than Collier.
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