New CDC Study Shows Mask Orders Work—No Matter What Governors Think Governors like Wyoming’s Mark Gordon and South Dakota’s Kristi Noem are inexplicably avoiding a mandate that the data shows could save lives. https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-study-shows-mask-orders-workno-matter-what-governors-think For months, a group of governors across the country insisted that they would not impose a mask mandate because it represented government overreach or it just wouldn’t work. Some have since relented in the face of ever-rising case counts, but others like Wyoming’s Mark Gordon and South Dakota’s Kristi Noem have held firm. A new study released by the Centers for Disease Control on Friday adds to the evidence that mask mandates do, in fact, slow the spread of the coronavirus. The researchers looked at Kansas while it was in the throes of a surge this summer. Gov. Laura Kelly implemented a statewide mask requirement, but counties were allowed to opt out of it. Some did and some did not, giving epidemiologists a chance to do side-by-by side comparisons. And what they found was clear-cut: counties that abided by Kelly’s mandate saw their cases drop 6 percent, while those that shunned a mandate saw increases of 100 percent. Some of the counties with mandates had other anti-COVID measures in place, such as limits on the size of social gatherings or restaurant occupancy. But the data showed that counties that had a mask mandate but did not have other restrictions still saw cases drop—signaling that the mask order was making a difference. The study authors note that the results are a compelling addition to a body of previous research that stood up the idea that a mask mandate was effective. “The findings in this report are consistent with declines in COVID-19 cases observed in 15 states and the District of Columbia, which mandated masks, compared with states that did not have mask mandates,” they wrote. Some governors in the latter category have warmed to the idea that just expecting people to wear masks without an order is enough—especially as their states have set record after record for new cases. Last week, the Wyoming governor—who had been ardently opposed to a statewide requirement—suggesting one could be in the offing. “We’ve relied on people to be responsible and they’re being irresponsible. If I can’t rely on you, we’re going to have to do something else,” Gordon said then. Yet, a week later, despite a demand for one from the health officers of 21 counties, he still has not done it. “It sounds like they’re not taking it very seriously in Wyoming, even though they have a lot of space. The data are clear that masks work,” said Dr. Timothy Brewer, a professor of epidemiology at UCLA and former adviser to the National Institute of Health. “Why wouldn’t you do a mask mandate if you’re doing shelter in place?” Instead, Gordon on Thursday unveiled a list of less dramatic restrictions that include, according to the Casper Star-Tribune, capping outdoor gatherings at 25 people and limiting socially distanced indoor gatherings to 100 people. Churches, which have been a source of a number of superspreader events around the country, were exempted, the newspaper reported. “These measures are intended to assist our healthcare system in meeting unprecedented demands for services, assure that in-classroom education can continue, and importantly keep Wyoming’s people working and her businesses open,” Gordon said. That same day, Wyoming reported 21 COVID-19 deaths, its most yet in a single day. “There’s no downside to masks. It’s unfortunate in the U.S. that we’ve politicized mask wearing. People should think of them as both a community action for public health and an individual protection,” Brewer told The Daily Beast. Not all governors have been as stubborn as Gordon. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum just adopted a statewide mask rule, and Iowa’s Kim Reynolds announced a weaker version of one. But South Dakota’s Noem, Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt, and Nebraska’s Peter Ricketts have watched cases go up and up without one. “Some have said that my refusal to mandate masks is a reason why our cases are rising here in South Dakota, and that is not true,” Noem, who is almost always seen without a mask, said this week.
I've been paying more attention to sport events on TV, interviews at airports for Thanksgiving travelers... There's a very large percentage of people pulling down their face masks to have conversations while others had their face masks only on their mouth...not their nose. One reporter said she was freaking out by how many people she saw at O'Hare airport that were pulling down their face masks to have a conversation with someone and then there's the interview of the guy with a knitted homemade face mask with holes so big that you can see his skin and mustache through the face mask. Simply, anybody discussing the science of face mask without disclosing the types of face masks, the way the face masks were worn and other typical things that goes along with using the face mask such as social distancing, hand wash frequency... It's a bogus or heavily flawed research. Here's a simple homemade test but a bit brutal. When you get a cold or coughing from a cold...while 2 feet away from a friend that has no glasses and not wearing a face mask... Cough in face. Do the same test with another friend with glasses, face mask on both him / her. Wait 1 - 3 days to see which one gets a cold and/or red eye which one does not get a cold nor red eye. P.S. One of my kids coughed in my face when he was a toddler...within 2 days it looked like some one punched me in the eye and all my blood vessels had broken in the eye plus pus leaking out of the tear duct. Trust me, there's ton of bacteria in our mouths and you don't want to get that shit in your eyes nor your blood stream. Simply, there's a reason why Surgeons wear surgical masks...to protect their patients during surgery. wrbtrader
This is probably one of the major reasons why the high risk are still getting sick and dying. They think masks protect them... and their family members... Even though the data says no they don't. But morons like GWB and the media and our liberal idiot governors keep stressing masks... instead of social distancing https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...themselves-from-coronavirus-by-wearing-masks/ Poll: 71% Percent ‘Confident’ Mask Will Protect Them from Coronavirus A vast majority of Americans remain “confident” they are protecting themselves from the Chinese coronavirus by wearing masks, a Gallup survey found. The findings precede a Danish study that cast doubt on the efficacy of surgical masks and comes as experts emphasize the importance of social distancing. “Which of the following are reasons why you feel confident you are able to protect yourself in public?” the survey asked. Respondents overwhelmingly chose “you wear a mask in public” as the number one reason they feel confident, followed by 51 percent who said, “Other people wear masks when in public.” Social distancing, which some experts have identified as more efficient in preventing the transmission of the virus than wearing surgical or cotton masks, came in third, with 49 percent choosing the option. Thirty-six percent said they remained confident in protecting themselves from the virus because they are “personally healthy,” and one-third said, “Other people do a good job following public health measures.” Thirteen percent noted that individuals in their age group do not usually face “serious health effects” from the virus, and eight percent indicated that they do not need to take special precautions “because it is difficult to catch the coronavirus.” The Gallup survey, conducted November 1-6 as “part of the Franklin Templeton-Gallup Economics of Recovery Study,” surveyed 5,026 adults. Last month, a DANMASK-19 study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that there was no statistically significant difference in infection rates among surgical mask wearers and non-surgical mask wearers. It found: Our results suggest that the recommendation to wear a surgical mask when outside the home among others did not reduce, at conventional levels of statistical significance, the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in mask wearers in a setting where social distancing and other public health measures were in effect, mask recommendations were not among those measures, and community use of masks was uncommon. Yet, the findings were inconclusive and cannot definitively exclude a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection of mask wearers in such a setting. It is important to emphasize that this trial did not address the effects of masks as source control or as protection in settings where social distancing and other public health measures are not in effect. … A total of 3030 participants were randomly assigned to the recommendation to wear masks, and 2994 were assigned to control; 4862 completed the study. Infection with SARS-CoV-2 occurred in 42 participants recommended masks (1.8%) and 53 control participants (2.1%). The between-group difference was −0.3 percentage point (95% CI, −1.2 to 0.4 percentage point; P = 0.38) (odds ratio, 0.82 [CI, 0.54 to 1.23]; P = 0.33). Multiple imputation accounting for loss to follow-up yielded similar results. Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection. A July update from the UC Davis Health experts also stressed that social distancing is more effective at cutting transmission rates than masks, though they did say mask-wearing had a positive effect as well. “So we don’t know who might spread it,” Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital, said. “We do know social distancing reduces the risk of transmitting the virus by 90 percent and wearing masks decreases the risk by 65 percent.” https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...themselves-from-coronavirus-by-wearing-masks/
Joe "The mask mandate" Biden is the reason masks are failing The CDC recommended never to touch your mask and if you do then sanitize your hands and everything you touched. People are treating masks like it is a piece of clothing They wear them for days , bring them into their houses, are yanking them down to talk or eat. This makes masks more harmful Watch Joe helping spread death
Unless they are N95, masks do not protect you from contracting Covid. Masks in common use protect you from spreading covid. I know it seems like the same thing but it’s not. Don’t believe Jem. Only a few more months to go.
OK I cannot believe the level of stupidit in this country... the mask are not to PROTECT you from getting it but from spreading it. Likewise if you all wear masks around each other then you limit the spread among the people.. Seriously....people dont care about education anymore..
I disagree. I think people need to think of it both ways. 'Muricans, who can be quite selfish on some issues, need to do it because they think it protects themselves, rather than the feel-good attitude Fauci et. al. keep saying about it protecting others. Look at it this way... If you were tested many times negative for the COVID in a row at home, and you KNEW you did not have the virus, but were forced to go into a room with 10 people who were absolutely positive and they were all wearing masks... Would you wear a mask to help increase your chances of not getting it from all the infected people in that room? Any logically-sound human would say, "Yeah, I'll wear the mask. I don't want to get the COVID." THAT'S how we as a people need to look at this. It should have been that way in February, but no...'Muricans were invincible, and stupid.