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If you lived in Florida, that existed since the summer/early fall of 2020.
Yeah, you can tell that by just looking at it's death per capita in 15th place. You managed to beat NY, who was one of the hardest hit in the beginning.
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Yeah, you can tell that by just looking at it's death per capita in 15th place. You managed to beat NY, who was one of the hardest hit in the beginning.
You need to adjust Florida's death rate by age.
Once you do that Florida is in #31 place. New York in #17. California is in #38 but the difference in age-adjusted death rate is small (299 vs 275).
One of the largest and most comprehensive studies on the effectiveness of masks found they do almost nothing to reduce the spread of respiratory viruses.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Review........
Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses
"Authors' conclusions
The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions."
"Authors' conclusions
The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions."
Yet they draw common sense general conclusions most people can follow.
Yet they draw common sense general conclusions most people can follow.
There's a distinction between government mandating masks and people actually adhering to wearing masks.
How can somebody come to conclusions about the efficacy of the use of masks when mandates were not adhered to? That's common sense isn't it? That goes against scientific principles if one can not control experiments.
The burden of proof is always on people advocating the intervention. Please cite for me at least 2 RCTs or CRTs showing mask effectiveness, thanks in advance.
There's a distinction between government mandating masks and people actually adhering to wearing masks.
How can somebody come to conclusions about the efficacy of the use of masks when mandates were not adhered to? That's common sense isn't it? That goes against scientific principles if one can not control experiments.
Some of those studies Rakin cited were done in the hospital setting with HCW where mask wearing was adhered to. Presumably properly.
Even if adherence is not perfect, if you have more (much more) adherence in the intervention arm vs control arm and still no effect, you can draw a conclusion it was a bad intervention.
Requiring perfect and absolute compliance is not feasible.
Of course, if you think masks work, you're free to wear them. The mandates need to be gone everywhere and for all time until the mask crowd can do 2 CRTs or RCTs on masks that show effectiveness.
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Some of those studies Rakin cited were done in the hospital setting with HCW where mask wearing was adhered to. Presumably properly.
Even if adherence is not perfect, if you have more (much more) adherence in the intervention arm vs control arm and still no effect, you can draw a conclusion it was a bad intervention.
Requiring perfect and absolute compliance is not feasible.
Of course, if you think masks work, you're free to wear them. The mandates need to be gone everywhere and for all time until the mask crowd can do 2 CRTs or RCTs on masks that show effectiveness.
A person goes to work and wears a mask and then goes home and does not wear a mask. The study does not control exposures outside of work.
We are not talking about controlled studies. Controlled in the sense of controlling variables.
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