There is something deeply ironic about this author's righteous indignation over "intellectual dishonesty." Looking at the first chart offered, comparing Kentuc

There is something deeply ironic about this author's righteous indignation over "intellectual dishonesty." Looking at the first chart offered, comparing Kentucky and Tennessee, the chart interestingly begins in December of 2020. Both states have a drop in cases beginning around January 2021, and as the cases seem to bottom out, both roll back mask mandates—albeit with Tennessee doing so first. Here's what's wildly dishonest about this: 1. Extend that chart back a year, and you'll see that Tennessee—whose governor was opposed to any statewide mandate—spent most of July/August with a 7 day average hovering around 2,000 new cases. Kentucky, where the "cowardly" governor did mandate masks, was hovering around 600. Tennessee's population is 50% larger, and yet, they were experiencing more than 3x the case count. 2. In January, when all of these graphs seem to drop, the vaccine was rolling out. These charts, if anything, do a better job of demonstrating the efficacy of vaccinations than they do of showing the ineffectiveness of masks.