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> Why does then the states with the highest mask use (CA, NYC) have much higher covid positive rates than states with some of the lowest mask use (Florida, NYC)
by chimprich 5y ago
> Why does then the states with the highest mask use (CA, NYC) have much higher covid positive rates than states with some of the lowest mask use (Florida, NYC)?
Even if that was true, places that were hit hardest by the pandemic tended to impose the most severe restrictions.
It's like finding that crash barriers are installed on roads with the highest accident rate and asking whether crash barriers are useless.
- asabjorn 5y agoPeople have traveled and moved extensively to Florida as well as TX from NY and CA, so any high-spread virus would spread to Florida and CA then spread within them. If masks and other strict lockdown measures were effective then by now open states such as Florida and NYC would see much higher death as well as covid case rates. See other comment I made in parent thread showing its about the same.
- chimprich 5y agoStrict lockdowns are effective. It's a virus that spreads through social contact. You restrict social contact, you reduce spread of the virus. It's not plausible to claim they're not effective. This feels like an argument from 12 months ago. They've demonstrably worked in Italy, the UK, New Zealand, China, and so on. They were the primary tool to constrain virus spread until vaccines came along.
- asabjorn 5y agoWhat metric shows strict lockdowns are effective? As I've shown outcomes on covid cases are equivalent in populous strict lockdown states (NY, CA) and open states (Florida, Texas). Death rate to confirmed covid cases is about 1.6% for all of these except NY that has 2.6%, controlling somewhat for differences in testing.