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I think it may ultimately be more useful to think of mask mandates as an effect rather than a cause of reduced disease spread. Communities that are culturally p
by obelos 5y ago
I think it may ultimately be more useful to think of mask mandates as an effect rather than a cause of reduced disease spread. Communities that are culturally predisposed toward prosociality don't actually need mandates to produce collective behaviors that reduce spread. It's politically viable to impose a mask mandate in those places, even though it's unnecessary for producing a public health impact. The converse, in areas where it's politically infeasible for public officials to impose a mandate, appears in a population where individuals are not predisposed to adopting public health measures on their own.
- Pxtl 5y agoYep. There's a very strong correlation simply by political affiliation. This Washington Post columnist has some very telling graphs: https://twitter.com/pbump/status/1466261627074920452 https://twitter.com/pbump/status/1466261627074920452 Basically, the more urban and politically blue the county is, the more success they had against COVID, despite the fact that urban locations with higher density and more shared spaces have an intrinsic disadvantage in stopping the spread of disease. By politicizing public health measures, they got outcomes split by political culture.