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Feb 10 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is 100% correct.

There is scientific reason to have a govt enforced mandate. If you feel you need to mask, do so.
A thread worth reading. Ashish is more pro-school mask than I am, but I think he is also approaching this reasonably.

I think masks work in kids. I also think mask MANDATES in schools have had only very limited benefit, even at peak surges, when you look at the data. I believe the benefit is greater than zero, but it so far is not shown to be statistically significant.

This optional approach is the correct one now. We aren't at peak pandemic March 2020 anymore. We have tools to mitigate, and kids are low risk to boot. Its time to end statewide mask mandates.

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Pradheep J. Shanker Profile picture
Feb 11
Anyone want to defend vaccine mandates?

Mandates made sense when:
1. Vaccines obviously save lives, which is still true today.
2. Vaccines virtually stopped transmission...WHICH IS NOT TRUE TODAY.

Point #2 really is important, and Fauci/Walensky don't want to answer it.
Lets stipulate point #1. There is no question that vaccines save lives, and everyone should choose to get vaccinated for their own sake.

Agreed? Image
Here is the problem: the real benefit of mandates, as stated by Biden himself, is to protect SOCIETY.

But in the age of Omicron, that isn't really the major benefit of vaccines. Vaccinated individuals were only marginally less likely to get infected and transmit the virus.
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Feb 10
So, I fully support ending mask mandates, etc. Why? Because there is little to no evidence the mandates work.

But for politicians like @GovMurphy, @GovKathyHochul, @GovNedLamont, etc...stop the BS. This is not because the science changed.

Its because the politics changed.
Lets look at the data. Where on this chart would you choose to end mandates?

???

Case numbers are higher now than any time in 2020 or 2021.
Look at this chart.

Does this make ANY sense, considering their past arguments for mandates???

The answer is clearly NO.
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Feb 10
This entire thread is mostly nonsense.

I don't even know where to start, it is so bad. Ugh.
First, why specifically target Denmark? Mask mandates are ending THROUGHOUT EUROPE. UK, Sweden, etc, etc.

Mask mandates are dying.

bbc.com/news/uk-600474…
This is also questionable. Yes, other countries have higher vaccination rates. We should all vaccinate more!

But...

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Feb 9
Joe Rogan Returns to Stand-Up Stage, Mocks His Controversies hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-n… via @THR
ROFL: “Somebody made a compilation of every time I said that word...put it on YouTube, and it turned out that was racist as fuck. Even to me! I’m me and I’m watching it saying, ‘Stop saying it!’ I put my cursor over the video and I’m like, ‘Four more minutes?!'”
“I talk shit for a living — that’s why this is so baffling to me,...if you’re taking vaccine advice from me, is that really my fault?...If you want my advice, don’t take my advice.”
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Feb 9
#NeverForget

Some are arguing the science had changed. That's really not true.

By Jan 15, it was pretty clear we were peaking. Here is Virginia...

Now one can argue that we weren't totally sure... That's true. Image
But here is the problem. Here is NJ...

How long do you wait to end mask mandates?

Because the problem is another wave IS COMING. So if you wait too long, you actually end the mandates EXACTLY WHEN THE NEW VIRUS SHOWS UP. Image
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Feb 9
The one useful think the @POTUS COVID press conference today could do?

Tell the country it is time to end mask mandates for schools.

Narrator: Biden is far too cowardly to support that evidence based statement, because of...you guessed it...politics.
ICYMI.

If they can't at least make that assertion, than they are completely and wholly useless.

As others have said, schools should have been the last to be closed during the shutdown.

This is also true of masks. Masking for adults is FAR more useful than children; and if you are going to end mask mandates...start with ending it in schools.
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