Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o...
by thrownaway810 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:52AM
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The study you have linked does not support the conclusion you’ve drawn from it. I would recommend reading the “Discussion” sections, where the authors discuss other studies in other areas of the world that contradict theirs, and the impact of various social and density factors on their specific study.
Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o...
by shkkmo on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:52AM
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That study seems to have an obvious and unacknowledged flaw: they did not control for the growing prevalence of the delta variant this summer even though the time frame of the study exactly coincides with the spread of delta within the united states.
These sorts of analyses are extremely hard to control all confounds for.
Last week: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8395971/
Conclusions: There was no reduction in per-population daily mortality, hospital bed, ICU bed, or ventilator occupancy of COVID-19-positive patients attributable to the implementation of a mask-wearing mandate.
Also last week: large Bangladesh study showing cloth does nothing, surgical 11% reduction but only among people over 50 and it still was neither statistically significant nor could be attributable to masks vs other factors.
Half the country doesn't care, they're forever stuck in their COVID jingoism, proud to tell people how righteous they are. So, enjoy those Freedom Fries, I mean masks!! I mean look at your response, like, "Oh no don't you dare say that 'there is no god' around here!!" It's just a faith-based issue at this point.