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I started to believe these analyses were conducted by people who intentionally wanted to mislead. It’s impossible to find the effect of mask mandates this way.
by temp8964 5y ago
I started to believe these analyses were conducted by people who intentionally wanted to mislead. It’s impossible to find the effect of mask mandates this way. Anybody with a little common sense should know that. Why? Mask mandates were never implemented alone. Places implemented mask mandates usually also have other regulations like social distancing, closing restaurants or indoor dining, or temperatures measuring, etc. Claiming the effects are just masking is intentional misleading.
- simonh 5y agoRight, all this graph shows is that jurisdictions that imposed mask mandates had much lower case rates. Presumably that's because they had a lot of policies in place that put together were effective. Clearly they were doing something that worked, and it might even be sensible to use mask mandates as a proxy for that, but the article is a bit misleading. It would be nice to see how mask wearing rates had an effect but I suppose that's not as easy to track over time.
- dboreham 5y agoAlso, at least based on the area where I live, the locations with a higher proportion of believers in science, less in "freedom", and so on, are the places that impose mask mandates. So there may be some tail wagging dog going on.
- temp8964 5y agoExactly. Regions implemented mandates have different population than regions didn’t. This kind of one variable comparison is totally junk science.