{"id":45325,"date":"2022-04-20T10:11:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T14:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45325"},"modified":"2022-04-20T10:11:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T14:11:18","slug":"to-mask-or-not-to-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45325","title":{"rendered":"To Mask Or Not To Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, Just the News<\/a> reported that the Biden administration intends to appeal the court decision that mask mandates were unconstitutional. The statement is shrouded in ‘wiggle words,’ but that is the general direction the administration is going.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced that if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determines masks to be necessary, it will appeal the Florida judge’s decision striking down the Biden administration’s COVID-19 mask mandate on transportation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So the administration will blame the CDC if it decides to appeal.<\/p>\n

Scott Johnson at Power Line Blog<\/a> also posted an article about mask mandates on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The article at Power Line Blog notes:<\/p>\n

Speaking of maskaholism, former New York Times science writer John Tierney reviews the record in the outstanding City Journal column \u201cMaskaholics.\u201d<\/a> Tierney includes the graph below with his column. It was created by data analyst Ian Miller. Tierney comments that the graph should be required viewing for everyone still wearing a mask and every public official or journalist who still insists that mask mandates \u201ccontrol the spread[,]\u201d such as Mr. Playbook above.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tierney explains:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The graph tracks the results of a natural experiment that occurred nationwide during the pandemic. Eleven states never mandated masks, while the other 39 states enforced mandates. The mandates typically began early in the pandemic in 2020 and remained until at least the summer of 2021, with some extending into 2022. The black line on the graph shows the weekly rate of Covid cases in all the states with mask mandates that week, while the orange line shows the rate in all the states without mandates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As you can see from the lines\u2019 similar trajectories, the mask mandates hardly controlled the virus. By the time the mandates were introduced in New York and other states in the spring of 2020 (at the left side of the graph), infections had already been declining in those states, and the mandates didn\u2019t prevent a surge later that year, when cases rose and fell in nearly identical trajectories regardless of states\u2019 mask policies. The pandemic\u2019s second year saw slight deviations in both directions, but those reflected the seasonality of the virus and the geography of mask mandates, which remained more common in northern states. Cases were higher in the non-mandate states last summer, when the seasonal surge in the South disproportionately hit Republican states without mandates, but those states went on to have fewer cases during the winter, when the seasonal surge in the North hit more Democratic states with mandates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you add up all the numbers on those two lines, you find that the mask mandates made zero difference. The cumulative rate of infection over the course of the pandemic was about 24 percent in the mandate states as well as in the non-mandate states. Their cumulative rates of Covid mortality were virtually identical, too (in fact, there were slightly more deaths per capita in the states with mask mandates).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the links to both articles for further information and insight into the significance of masks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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