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Study: COVID case growth wasn't meaningfully different between states with mask mandates and those without

https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2021/05/27/study-covid-case-growth-wasnt-meaningfully-different-between-states-with-mask-mandates-and-those-without-n392970

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Via Reason’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown. We already knew that the effect of mandates was negligible at best from the fact that Texas ditched its mask mandate in mid-March and has seen cases drop steadily ever since. At best, any upward pressure on the number of infections from ending mask requirements can be counteracted and even overwhelmed by downward pressure from factors like a “seasonal effect” on the virus as the weather warms in spring.

At worst, there’s no pressure on case counts from mask mandates at all. People are going to wear or not wear masks based on their own personal risk assessment, irrespective of what the government says.

A more intriguing possibility raised by this study (which hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed) is that mask-wearing itself does little to affect transmission, period.

I don't know why largely open Texas and partly shut down California have seen very similar new cases and deaths numbers since the beginning of January, but until the ideological paradigms are abandoned by all concerned - both sides! - understanding will not have a chance to start.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.