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@WILLisms
Apr 3, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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It has been 24 days since Texas "reopened 100%" and eliminated statewide mask mandates.

COVID-19 "cases," hospital patients, and ICU patients all dropped again today in Texas. ImageImageImage
With 1,250 "cases" reported today in Texas, the 7-day-average of "cases" = down 23.4% since Texas fully reopened without a statewide mask mandate.

Down 49.3% since @GregAbbott_TX announced it March 2nd.

The 7-day-average "case" level is down 87.9% from the peak back in January. Image
According to @TexasDSHS data, the number of patients in Texas hospitals who also tested positive for COVID-19: down 35.5% since Texas reopened "100%" without a statewide mask mandate.

Down 48.4% since @GovAbbott's announcement.

Down 80% from the peak. Image
Texas ICU patients who also tested positive for COVID-19: down 36.97% since Texas reopened "100%" with no statewide mask mandate on March 10th.

Down 49.7% since @GregAbbott_TX's announcement on March 2nd.

Down 76.6% since the peak. Image
So... great news in Texas! "Cases," hospitalizations, and ICU patients all down since Texas eliminated mask mandates and reopened 100%. Deaths are also down, but those data always lag, so we can revisit that later.

The people in this thread hardest hit:
Pointed out by @TheLawyerCraig, today’s Texas “positivity rate” (3.88%) dropped below 4% for the first time... ever? Image

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May 9, 2022
Woke rot in Texas government schools is far more pervasive and systemic than almost anyone will admit. It goes both deep and wide. Urban, rural, and suburban. Libraries. Curriculum. Teachers. Administrators. Don’t go down that rabbit hole if you want to imagine the kids are okay.
If you do any searching of your local school's library, you'll definitely find tons of weird porny graphic novels and embarrassingly cringe woke toddler books and such. But it's more than just a handful of books "slipping through the cracks," it's a relentlessly one-sided bias.
The top school district in Texas, @EanesISD, has its library catalogue online, and, sure, the activist books and sexual content books are disturbing, but it is also amazing what is missing.

If not having a book is a "ban," Eanes I.S.D. librarians are Bowdlerizing aficionados.
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Jan 26, 2022
Some things never change.

In late November of 2018, San Francisco Mayor James Rolph, Jr. asserted that "strict enforcement of universal masking" in his city had cut short the usual course of Spanish Flu by weeks and prevented widespread death.

newspapers.com/clip/93507592/…
SF Mayor claimed that "our people [wore masks] gladly and [were] devoutly thankful for good results."

Reality: Thousands of people were arrested for not wearing masks in San Francisco.

newspapers.com/clip/85369642/…
The results of San Francisco's aggressive forced-mask enforcement during 1918-1919?

By February 1919: "Figures show there were only three cities where the mortality was greater than San Francisco."

newspapers.com/clip/85331489/…
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Sep 15, 2021
Recently, a Baby Boomer extended relative shared this "Do's and Don't's for Influenza Prevention" list from the November 15, 1918 edition of the Douglas Island News in Alaska, with the suggestion that this advice is somehow... good. You can find it here: newspapers.com/clip/47051883/ Image
1918 was a lot like 2020. A lot of folks were very willing to try out masks in response to a deadly virus (Spanish Flu was *far* worse than COVID).

Masks were mandated in very few places in 1918. The rationale for masks in 1918 was personal protection, not societal protection.
By the 1919-1921 timeframe, a strong consensus had formed against masks.

I've taken a serious deep dive into documents and newspapers from the Spanish Flu era to get a sense of what was going on. A few things stand out.
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Aug 16, 2021
Last year in the U.S. broadly and Texas more specifically, some schools were mask-optional. Other schools forced or coerced children to wear them for hours each day, every day, often even outside during exercise.

Forced-mask schools had higher infection rates than mask-optional.
In U.S. schools, staff in forced-mask schools had higher COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) infection rates than those in mask-optional schools.
In real-world data, rather than wish-casting, hunches, or theoretical models, forced-mask schools had higher infection rates for both students and staff.
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Aug 14, 2021
Texas, from January peaks to latest data:
- COVID hospitalizations down 19.9%
- COVID patients % of capacity down 22.9%
- COVID patients % of all patients down 27.7%
- COVID patients down 21.4%
- COVID ICU patients down 17.2%
- All ICU patients down 11.7%

dshs.texas.gov/coronavirus/Co…
RSV, meanwhile, is way up in Texas:
"At Texas Children's Hospital in Houston on Thursday, 25 of 45 hospitalized pediatric patients were diagnosed with RSV as well as COVID-19."

That's 55.56% of them.

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Aug 6, 2021
Remote "learning" in 2020-21 was an abject failure in Texas school districts: tea.texas.gov/sites/default/…
Divided into quartiles, the more school districts were remote rather than in-person in 2020-21, the worse they did on reading and math tests.
In every category of STAAR Test achievement (Masters, Meets, Approaches, or Did Not Meet Grade Level), in every subject, in every grade, the more remote school districts had worse learning loss than the more in-person school districts.
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