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Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days by natural219 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:26PM (#28149445)
it's been looked at several times, and a vast majority of the convincing evidence seems to fall in favor of the camp that overall mitigations do nearly nothing compared to control samples of places with no/fewer restrictions

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/18/coronalinks-5-18-20-wh...

Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days by kenjackson on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @08:01PM (#28149846)
That article is more than a year old. A far newer, more complete assessment shows that mitigations do you have an impact in reducing deaths and infections:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261286v...