seeker_two
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True. If masks worked, then politicians should be dropping dead by the thousands.....Point of order. Y’all wonder why there is public distrust on all sides of this topic? A picture is worth a thousand words.
That was taken yesterday in the state capitol. Notice elected officials have exempted themselves from King Abbot’s order.
This is not an unusual self-exemption. Watch any White House propaganda conference. Notice the talking head does not wear a mask inside a federal building, in violation of her boss’ own Executive Order requiring it.
Local and federal officials around the nation have done a good job of stating the use of their lawful power to force public behavior change is based on science, then ignore that science themselves. Watch your local newscast; no masks there, either.
I’m not a scientist, but I have a hard time with do as I say, not as I do, especially when the sole argument being used to force compliance is “because, science”. Either the science applies equally to everybody, or it is not settled.
Then I take a look at Florida, where we spent a week last Thanksgiving and hasn’t had a mask mandate since last September and everybody knows all the retirees flock to. As of today, NY’s state wide cumulative death rate per 100,000 people is 59% higher than FL’s.
States ranked by COVID-19 death rates
As of October 29, more than 743,000 people in the U.S. had died after contracting COVID-19, according to The New York Times.www.beckershospitalreview.com
Let’s not just look at death rates, let’s also look at infection and hospitalization rates. The Tampa Bay Times did and partnered with politifact to do some research. You know what they found? Not much.
“...it’s hard to establish causation: Is it the loose regulation that helps reduce infection rates, or is it the low infection rates that allow for looser regulations?”
Is Florida doing better on coronavirus than ‘locked down’ states? | PolitiFact
Numerous other states that followed similarly low-regulation policies are seeing coronavirus statistics far worse than Florida’s.www.tampabay.com
If causation can’t be established either way, that reinforces what I’ve said from the very beginning: if we think we know everything there is to be known with only the information we have today, then we are wrong, no matter what.
I have no doubt many people have died and many more have gotten sick. What nobody knows is how many people have actually contracted the virus. That’s pretty damn important because it establishes the numerator and without it, all the math and science being done is based on assumptions of what the numerator is.
I expect what will become known is that a whole host of factors from population density to overall health at time of infection and everything in between will have varying contributions to the outcomes.
But one thing is certain: it is a very rare thing in America for .gov to compel it’s free citizens to change their daily behaviors at the flip of a switch. The last time I can think of would have been the blackout orders before and during WWII. Amazingly enough, compliance then wasn’t quite as universal as you’d be led to think, even in places where it should have logically been.
In World War II, blackouts were taken seriously in nearly all American cities. Not Anchorage.
Histories of Anchorage: The day Pearl Harbor was attacked, Sitka issued an immediate blackout order. Many coastal Alaska towns followed suit the next day. Fairbanks residents, if anything, were too zealous. Then there was Anchorage.www.adn.com
In sum, if the science is as strong as it’s claimed to be, then let’s get serious about transparency around what factors are known to contribute to the various outcomes. Let those factors be openly argued in the court of public opinion. Explain why, in plain language, the disparity in rates occur despite similar regulatory environments, whether the be tight or loose.
But don’t tell do as I say, not as I do. That’s just cheap and disingenuous.
....and the fact they are not makes me somewhat sad.....
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