Charts the masked-up, lockdown-lovers can’t explain

[Leongsam]

Charts the masked-up, lockdown-lovers can’t explain

Published on December 21, 2020

Written by Tom Woods

You may have noticed something about your social media contacts. They think cases go up when people disregard state-imposed restrictions, and go down when they comply. These are people who haven’t seen any charts.


Some of the ones that follow were generated by Ian Miller (@ianmSC), and some by me using the Worldometers site.


Let’s start with two Orange Counties, one in California and one in Florida. The one in California has been shut down for eight months. It is the home of the only Disney property in the world that is still closed. California has a young population: it’s the 44th oldest of the 50 states.


The one in Florida is completely open, including theme parks and entertainment venues, with no state-imposed occupancy restrictions. Florida is the second-oldest of the 50 states. Isn’t it funny how closely the two track each other — until the end, of course, when California’s goes through the roof?

I guess California and Florida obey and then disobey at exactly the same time. What a coincidence! Well, let’s check in on California at large — all those restrictions must be really helping:

Ahem.


Let’s check on Mississippi and Alabama. They’re right next to each other, with very similar populations, but the’ve imposed mask mandates at different times and had different timetables and policies for the reopening of various kinds of businesses. Their charts must be wildly different, right?


And yet:

Poland has had a mask mandate as of April 17. Apparently they must have started ignoring guidelines and began traveling for some kind of Polish Thanksgiving in early October:

Here’s what deaths in Poland look like:

Back in May, we got stories about Slovakia like this one in the Atlantic: “Lessons From Slovakia—Where Leaders Wear Masks. The country’s politicians led by example, helping it flatten its curve.”

I guess there’s some Slovakian tradition in October where they burn their masks.


Or how about Hungary:

And here’s Germany, the land of $5000 fines for not wearing masks:

Isn’t this weird? It’s like all the peoples of central Europe conspired to ignore public health recommendations all at once!


It’s almost like there’s some kind of seasonal pattern going on in central Europe — but we know that can’t be, because rises in deaths are always somebody’s fault.


Let’s make a quick trip to Asia: check out the similarity of the curves in Japan and South Korea. How weird that their peoples followed, then disregarded, then followed, and then again disregarded public health recommendations at precisely the same time in both places!

Remember being told how bad we all were for visiting people during Thanksgiving? There are major spikes in many countries of the world, as we’ve just seen, even without a Thanksgiving there, but our betters aren’t letting that stop them from blaming us for a rise in hospitalizations. (The rate of growth in hospitalizations in the U.S. actually slowed after Thanksgiving, incidentally.)


But here’s the problem:


More than half of the hospitalization increase after Thanksgiving occurred in California and New York! Didn’t those jokers hear that the way to avoid this is by lockdowns and masks? Sheesh!

Oh, and here are North and South Dakota. North Dakota imposed a bunch of occupancy restrictions to “stop the spread.” South Dakota didn’t.


Gee, isn’t that funny — their numbers look exactly the same:

I think I’ve made my point.

 

[nayr69sg]

where is the Singapore chart?

Singapore has no covid.

Actually has anyone looked at comparing chart for Northern Hemisphere vs Southern Hemisphere?

 

[Leongsam]

New Study: Mask Mandates Had Zero Effect But the Lie Continues

Published on December 21, 2020

Written by Scott Morefield

Obviously, no amount of evidence, data, trends, facts, studies, or science will ever convince most ‘public health officials’ that masks aren’t doing squat to stop the spread of COVID-19. Cases and deaths continue to spike (yes, many of these are super-sensitive PCR test-driven numbers, but still) despite the fact that well over 90% of the country are complying with their absurd mandates.


Yet, predictably, the virus keeps going right on virusing, as highly contagious respiratory viruses, unfortunately, tend to do, especially once cold weather hits.


Nevertheless, those of us who are mask skeptics have a difficult chore in front of us. Given that most of the country is under a mask mandate of some form or another, we can point to spikes all day AFTER these mandates were put in place only to have our opponents simply say, “Look how bad it would have been WITHOUT masks!”


It’s a tough argument to counter given the fact that our overlords have sold masking as a low-cost, easy “solution” that’s totally worth it even if they “save one life,” or something (nevermind the health risks – let’s censor docs who talk about those!). So, how DO we prove that things wouldn’t have been worse without masks? One way is to look at data from the few free states remaining.


In Florida, for example, most counties have so far bravely refused to implement mask mandates while others, usually in high population centers, have done so. Justin Hart and the team at Rational Ground (follow them on Twitter here – it’s worth it) just released a comprehensive data analysis of masked vs non-masked counties in the state. A total of 22 of 67 counties in the state have implemented a mask order at some point during the period of May 1 through December 15. It may not sound like many, but these include almost all of Florida’s largest metro areas. To be more than fair, if an area added a mask order at some point during the outbreak, the study’s authors gave a 14 day period to allow time for cases to begin subsiding. “Cases were summed for both mandate and non-mandate jurisdictions and adjusted per 100,000 people for days the mandates were or were not in effect,” wrote the authors, describing the methodology used.


If masks did even close to as advertised, one would expect to see the counties that went maskless to be absolute dumpster fires next to the counties that implemented mandates, right? At the very least, the numbers should favor the masked areas by more than a percentage point or two. So, how did it go? Yep, it was the Mask Cult’s worse nightmare:


“When counties DID have a mandate in effect, there were 667,239 cases over 3,137 days with an average of 23 cases per 100,000 per day. When counties DID NOT have a countywide order, there were 438,687 cases over 12,139 days with an average of 22 cases per 100,000 per day.”


In other words, counties with mask-mandates in place actually did WORSE than those that refused to implement them. (Yeah, color me shocked.) The authors even accounted for population density in their analysis, suggesting that it didn’t have an impact on the numbers because four of the 12 most populous counties in Florida never had a countywide order. “When the eight DID have an order in effect, there were 64 cases per 1,000. In periods 11 of 12 DID NOT have one, there were 40,” they wrote.


“But that’s just Florida,” you say. “They’re weirdos anyway. Surely masks have worked in the rest of the country.” Well, I’m glad you asked! The good folks at Rational Ground went on to compare national numbers, pitting the states that resisted the urge to impose a statewide mask mandate against those that masked up. How did those compare?


“When states DID have a mandate in effect, there were 9,605,256 cases over 5,907 total days and averaged 27 cases per 100,000 per day. When states DID NOT have a statewide order there were 5,781,716 cases over 5,772 total days averaging 17 cases per 100,000 people per day.”


So there you have it, incontrovertible data evidence that mask mandates do little to nothing to stop or even slightly curb the spread of COVID-19. If masks were the answer, wouldn’t you expect to see a drop in cases not long after mask mandates are implemented? At the very least, wouldn’t you expect to see cases level off and STAY leveled off? What you would NOT expect would be what has actually happened, for cases to spike as they have done since November seemingly all across the country, regardless of whether or not a mandatory masking policy was in place.


Further, wouldn’t you also expect states and areas that MASKED HARRDERRR than anyone else, states like California that have the ‘bold leadership’ to insist the plebes under their control mask up outside on hiking trails and sitting alone in parks, to have the lowest case counts of all? Just look at the latest per capita numbers there compared to Florida and tell me with a straight face that mask mandates ‘work.’ As Dave Rubin adeptly pointed out earlier this month, Florida’s numbers “should be ten times higher” than California’s. I mean, nobody is asking for masks to work perfectly, but hell, shouldn’t we expect SOME performance?


Numbers and data like this get down to the brass tacks. We can pit our doctors, scientists, and epidemiologists against their doctors, scientists, and epidemiologists on the actual science behind whether forcing people to put a moist, bacteria & virus-laden piece of cloth over the holes through which they breathe actually works to contain a virus that’s infinitesimally smaller than its threads (and yes, there are plenty of doctors, scientists, and epidemiologists on Team Reality too, and a bunch of them are on this must-follow Twitter list!), but if mask-mandates aren’t actually WORKING to curb the spread, why do we have them in place?


It’s complete and utter nonsense, of course. You know it, I know it, and the powers-that-be likely know it too. So why do they insist on continuing the charade? Whatever it is, it has NOTHING to do with either public health or real science.