Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in FL schools

Re:Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask ... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday September 11, 2021 @02:56AM (#28489931)

China has already mandated N95s, even those with the valves that aren’t allowed in much of the west. The idea I think is that they are focusing filtering inbound while cloth masks only really filter outbound (so wearing the mask protect others, vs an N95 that has a higher chance of protecting the wearer).

Florida only reports their numbers once a week now and they aren’t breaking them down by county. They look good because they decided data reporting was no longer important: https://www.newsweek.com/florida-wont-release-number-covid-d...

I guess DeSantis is taking the ostrich approach? Let’s hope this is just incompetence and not willfully trying to obscure their data. All we really know is that they keep setting records, eg record number of deaths this week https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2021/09/10/florida-...

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Re:Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask ... by brighttank on Saturday September 11, 2021 @05:14AM (#28490552)

Where did you hear that China has mandated N95 masks? I live in Beijing and I can't say I've seen anyone wearing one. We basically have to wear the normal surgical masks when in shops, on public transport etc.

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Re:Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask ... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday September 11, 2021 @09:16AM (#28491730)

I was browsing China daily the other day:

https://govt.chinadaily.com.cn/s/202109/03/WS61397ce6498e6a1...

No cloth masks seem to be allowed.

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Re:Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask ... by prox on Saturday September 11, 2021 @03:08AM (#28489975)

Double masking also seems very effective: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7007e1.htm

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Re:Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask ... by roenxi on Saturday September 11, 2021 @03:13AM (#28489997)

Well, case numbers have been shaky through the entire pandemic to date. Hospitalisations and deaths are categorise though to get wrong though.

> China has already mandated N95s...

The part of China that the west should be copying is the "It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white; as long as it catches mice, it’s a good cat" approach of experimenting with policies to figure out which ones work in practice. Not the authoritarian systems underpinning the surveillance and control. More 1990 Hong Kong, less 2020 Hong Kong.

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Re:Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask ... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday September 11, 2021 @03:21AM (#28490039)

I’m not sure other stuff China does has to do with them mandating N95 masks because cloth masks are not effective enough? The parent comment makes the same observation, which isn’t invalidated by china’s authoritarian tendencies.

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