Missouri AG files lawsuit to end St. Louis County mask mandate

They always put little snippets at the end of the article like “the county saw a sharp increase in [metric]” as if that’s relevant

Out of curiosity, I read the full paper of the well-known Bangladeshi mask study to try and understand if there is actually a shred of evidence anywhere that masks work in macro-level situations.

Naturally, the researchers in the paper reach the "correct" conclusion that MASKS WORK. However, if you actually go through and read their data, you run into these inconvenient facts:

• The MAXIMUM reduction in transmission that let them arrive at the MASKS WORK conclusion was a measly 11%. Not 100%, not 95%, not 90%, not even 50% — Eleven. Percent. Is 11 fucking percent really worth ending modern civilization over?
• The reduction in transmission for people under the age of 60 was statistically negligible. That 11% comes only from people above that age group. Exempt < 60 from mask wearing and there would have been no meaningful difference in the study's results except that it'd probably make older people say "f* this" and also take off their masks.
• The 11% assumes surgical masks and above. They also measured cloth masks and guess what — zero statistically meaningful reduction.
• The study involved constantly reminding participants on the correct use of masks during the entire duration of data gathering. They note explicitly that after the researchers had left the towns involved in the experiment, correct use of masking dropped off a cliff — likely immediately turning that 11% back to ~0.

It goes without saying — all of these mandates in the real world from Missouri to Montreal have 90%+ of people wearing cloth masks, and no one's doing it properly — the masks aren't on tight, they're dirty, they're not covering the whole face, etc. Here in the real world, there is no chance whatsoever that any of the mandates are doing anything to meaningfully slow the spread.

So although the researchers reached the only acceptable result of MASKS WORK, you come away from reading their work with the complete opposite impression.

Also, I love how the mandates are so hellbent on removing individual agency. No mask mandate DOES NOT equate to no masks — people that don't want to wear them won't wear them, but people who do can do whatever the fuck they want — throw on 6x N95 for all we care. But that can never be considered — it must be about forcing the perceived non-compliant to kowtow to the will of the health elite.

Even the local news here in St. Louis pointed out that just across the river in St. Charles County, they've never had lockdowns nor any mask mandates yet have similar case loads.

I'm supporting Schmitt financially and through volunteering for his Senate campaign. I'll be voting for him in the primaries. I'm utterly helpless to do anything otherwise as I work in the education sector where I'm both marginalized as a critical thinker and moderate as well as marginalized in my Covid views. My life kind of looks like this as far as who I'm exposed to on a daily basis:

Intolerably Woke workplace/Blue city/^(Red state.)

There is no escaping this if you are surrounded by leftists, sadly.

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