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> it's starting to look like "casual" mask wearing (fabric masks loosely worn and taken off regularly for eating etc) is mostly just pointless hygiene theater a

by polote 5y ago

> it's starting to look like "casual" mask wearing (fabric masks loosely worn and taken off regularly for eating etc) is mostly just pointless hygiene theater at this point. No one has ever proven that mask mandates worked for covid, and it has been more than a year that we know that places which had a mask mandate didn't have a different trajectory that place that did, or that mask mandate didn't change the trajectory of the covid cases. So this is common knowledge at this point. But the same way the market can stay irrational longer than you are solvable. A useless measure can stay in place longer that we know it has no effect

Izkata 5y ago
> and it has been more than a year that we know that places which had a mask mandate didn't have a different trajectory that place that did, or that mask mandate didn't change the trajectory of the covid cases Anyone who doesn't believe this might want to take a look at https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/ https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/
- rejectedandsad 5y ago
  Yeah, we're already seeing what does make the difference - vaccines. Thank god we have a President with the balls to mandate them now.
  - polote 5y ago
    Mandating vaccines is an indirect solution the real solution is to have more at risk people to TAKE the vaccine. Whether or not mandate is the right strategy is another question. It is almost probably sure it is the wrong strategy but fines and mandates are the only things our politicians know how to do
    - lotsofpulp 5y ago
      Simply allowing actuaries to price in vaccinated versus non vaccinated into health insurance premiums would solve this problem very quickly.
      - s1artibartfast 5y ago
        Fewer young people would get the vaccine then
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        lotsofpulp 5y ago
        Why?
  - gfor1011 5y ago
    It does not look like vaccines have made much of a difference in Florida: http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_partners/covid19_report_archive/covid19-data/covid19_data_latest.pdf http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_partners/covid19_report_ar... See the "vaccination impact" sections.
    - CamperBob2 5y ago
      And I should trust information coming out of Florida because...?

by polote 5y ago

Izkata 5y ago

> and it has been more than a year that we know that places which had a mask mandate didn't have a different trajectory that place that did, or that mask mandate didn't change the trajectory of the covid cases Anyone who doesn't believe this might want to take a look at https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/ https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/

rejectedandsad 5y ago
Yeah, we're already seeing what does make the difference - vaccines. Thank god we have a President with the balls to mandate them now.
- polote 5y ago
  Mandating vaccines is an indirect solution the real solution is to have more at risk people to TAKE the vaccine. Whether or not mandate is the right strategy is another question. It is almost probably sure it is the wrong strategy but fines and mandates are the only things our politicians know how to do
  - lotsofpulp 5y ago
    Simply allowing actuaries to price in vaccinated versus non vaccinated into health insurance premiums would solve this problem very quickly.
    - s1artibartfast 5y ago
      Fewer young people would get the vaccine then
      - deleted 5y ago
        [deleted]
      - lotsofpulp 5y ago
        Why?
- gfor1011 5y ago
  It does not look like vaccines have made much of a difference in Florida: http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_partners/covid19_report_archive/covid19-data/covid19_data_latest.pdf http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_partners/covid19_report_ar... See the "vaccination impact" sections.
  - CamperBob2 5y ago
    And I should trust information coming out of Florida because...?