We don't need "a thorough conclusion" in order to decide if mask mandates should be enforced, just a good-enough conclusion. Demanding "thorough" is a great way

We don't need "a thorough conclusion" in order to decide if mask mandates should be enforced, just a good-enough conclusion. Demanding "thorough" is a great way to induce analysis paralysis rather than make an operationally effective decision. It's awfully hard to make any sort of decision if the data isn't made available, yes? The article lists the four jurisdictions which had mandates: St. Louis, St. Louis County, Kansas City and Jackson County. What more do you want? It's fun to cherry-pick the literature: "Our findings show that the Public Mask Mandate significantly lowers the incidence of developing all COVID-19 symptoms by 0.29 percentage points." - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8379388/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8379388/ "The mask mandate is consistently associated with lower infection and mortality rates in the short term. Early adoption of mask-wearing mandates is also consistently associated with lower COVID-19 infection rates in the long term, indicating the link between a government’s intervention speed and policy instrument efficacy." - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/puar.13426 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/puar.13426