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Re:Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask ... by polote on Saturday September 11, 2021 @03:13AM (#28489999)
> it's starting to look like "casual" mask wearing (fabric masks loosely worn and taken off regularly for eating etc) is mostly just pointless hygiene theater at this point.

No one has ever proven that mask mandates worked for covid, and it has been more than a year that we know that places which had a mask mandate didn't have a different trajectory that place that did, or that mask mandate didn't change the trajectory of the covid cases. So this is common knowledge at this point.

But the same way the market can stay irrational longer than you are solvable. A useless measure can stay in place longer that we know it has no effect

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Re:Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask ... by Izkata on Saturday September 11, 2021 @04:06AM (#28490253)
> and it has been more than a year that we know that places which had a mask mandate didn't have a different trajectory that place that did, or that mask mandate didn't change the trajectory of the covid cases

Anyone who doesn't believe this might want to take a look at https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/

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Re:Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask ... by polote on Saturday September 11, 2021 @04:30AM (#28490350)
Mandating vaccines is an indirect solution the real solution is to have more at risk people to TAKE the vaccine. Whether or not mandate is the right strategy is another question. It is almost probably sure it is the wrong strategy but fines and mandates are the only things our politicians know how to do
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Re:Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask ... by lotsofpulp on Saturday September 11, 2021 @05:08AM (#28490522)
Simply allowing actuaries to price in vaccinated versus non vaccinated into health insurance premiums would solve this problem very quickly.
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Re:Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask ... by s1artibartfast on Saturday September 11, 2021 @01:04PM (#28493607)
Fewer young people would get the vaccine then
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Re:Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask ... by lotsofpulp on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:13AM (#28501886)
Why?
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Re:Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask ... by gfor1011 on Saturday September 11, 2021 @05:17AM (#28490562)
It does not look like vaccines have made much of a difference in Florida:

http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_partners/covid19_report_ar...

See the "vaccination impact" sections.

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