Thread by @ianmSC

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.

https://twitter.com/elainejgodfrey/status/1358058706739617792

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.

There was no fear messaging from the Governor in South Dakota and no change in strategy.

Yet they peaked on the same day. Ignoring this and pretending mask compliance worked is legitimately misinformation. It’s a lie.

And the media repeats the lie over and over again.

This is why masks can never end. Because there is no intellectual honesty in the groupthink. They’re unfalsifiable.

When California, with endless mask mandates, experiences a huge surge, it’s ignored. When Iowa & South Dakota have the same curves at the same time…ignored.

They can never admit that it’s not working, they will never admit it’s not working, because that would mean acknowledging how much they’ve lied. And they have lied. A lot.

It’s dangerous, and for anyone actually paying attention to reality, it’s going to continue to erode trust