Any data on N95 masks-?Here are four Arizona counties that are all similar in population, and low density. Two have mask mandates, one never has, and one had all major cities rescind masks ending on 10/21/20. Since that time, Yuma has had the worst case growth despite masks & Coconino has remained high.
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Post-Thanksgiving mask charts: Still no evidence that masks work
17 new mask charts from Ian Miller!rationalground.com
Any data on N95 masks-?
The evidence on mask use and risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection in health care settings was also previously assessed as insufficient on the basis of 1 study with methodological limitations (6). Two new studies reported on mask use in health care settings (3, 4). One cohort study (n = 903) of hospital health care workers in Italy exposed to a patient with COVID-19 reported an imprecise estimate, with no statistically significant difference between mask use (FFP2 or FFP3 [equivalent to N95 or N99] or surgical mask) versus no mask use and risk for COVID-19 (adjusted OR, 1.6 [CI, 0.9 to 2.9]). Use of an FFP2 or FFP3 mask versus a surgical mask was associated with increased risk for COVID-19 (adjusted OR, 7.1 [CI, 3.0 to 16.7]) (4). A case–control study of hospital physicians in Bangladesh (98 case patients with COVID-19 and 92 control participants) also reported an imprecise estimate for medical mask use versus no mask use and risk for COVID-19 (adjusted OR, 1.40 [CI, 0.30 to 6.42]). However, N95 mask use versus no mask use was associated with decreased risk for COVID-19 during aerosol-generating procedures (OR, 0.37 [CI, 0.16 to 0.87]) (3). Both studies had serious methodological limitations, including potential recall bias and data discrepancies. In addition, 1 study (4) controlled only for age, and it was unclear what confounders were controlled for in the other study (3). Therefore, evidence for mask use versus nonuse and comparing masks types in health care settings remained insufficient (Supplement Table 4). There were no new studies on the effectiveness and safety of mask reuse or extended use.
8/ Governments call them lockdowns or whatever they want. But restricting freedom of movement, of worship, of a basic livelihood, all while using fear, fines, and intimidation to prevent families from seeing each other... that's not science.
Those are human right violations.
Post-Thanksgiving mask charts: Still no evidence that masks work
17 new mask charts from Ian Miller!rationalground.com
The UK mandated masks inside shops on 7/24, when cases were extremely low, only 10 per million. They expanded the indoor use of masks on 8/8, when cases were at only 12 per million
Today the rate is 540 per million, literally a 5300% increase. Because masks work.
We can turn the numbers upside down and inside out, but no matter how we examine them, there is no evidence of masks correlating with reduced spread. If anything, the opposite is true. And it sure as heck is not because of a lack of compliance.
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The burden is on those who want to violate the Constitution with such a draconian mandate for the rest of our lives to present affirmative evidence that their religious symbol works. The phony "fact checkers" will always find ways to show that we can't prove beyond a shadow of doubt that masks will never work. But while they force us to prove 100% that they don't work, mandaters don't have to prove any efficacy at all, even as 2-year-olds are forced to have their faces covered on planes.
We used to all scoff at the Islamic fundamentalist for believing that if they just waged jihad a little harder, they'd earn their 72 virgins. Well, those people can learn a thing or two about faith from the mask fundamentalists who believe it's never too late for masks to magically stop a virus after months of failure.