I've been called a lot worse just recentlymediatechnology wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:28 amWell that explains it.I like living on the edge....
I'm not sure though if that makes you a leader or a follower.
JR
I've been called a lot worse just recentlymediatechnology wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:28 amWell that explains it.I like living on the edge....
I'm not sure though if that makes you a leader or a follower.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday that he is ending Texas' statewide mask mandate and will soon allow all businesses to open at full capacity.
“It is now time to open Texas 100%,” Abbott said from a Mexican restaurant in Lubbock, arguing that Texas has fought the coronavirus pandemic to the point that “people and businesses don’t need the state telling them how to operate” any longer.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/02 ... ouncement/
1.32%On Friday afternoon, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (still called the CDC, even though they added a ‘P’) released a heretical report about mask-wearing and COVID-19.
The report, authored by at least a dozen medical doctors, PhD researchers, and, bizarrely, a handful of attorneys, examined how mask mandates across the US affected COVID cases and death rates.
You’d think with all of the media propaganda about mask effectiveness… and all the virtue signaling, with politicians and reporters appearing on live TV wearing masks… that the data would prove incontrovertibly and overwhelmingly that masks have saved the world.
But that’s not what the report says.
According to the CDC’s analysis, between March 1 and December 31 last year, statewide mask mandates were in effect in 2,313 of the 3,142 counties in the United States.
And, looking at the county-by-county data, the CDC concludes that mask mandates were associated with an average 1.32% decrease in the growth rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths during the first 100 days after the mask policy was implemented.
Wait, what? Only 1.32%?
You read that correctly, they didn’t misplace the decimal: according to the federal government agency that is responsible for managing the COVID-1984 pandemic, the difference between mask mandates and no mask mandate is literally just a 1.32% difference.
And bear in mind, it’s entirely possible that the real figure is even lower than that, given all the questionable COVID statistics.
Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cdc ... vid-heresy
I read a great book about " thinking, fast and slow" (Kahneman)... Human brains are lazy and are too willing to accept such statement without critical inspection. If you pay attention we are constantly bombarded with bullshit because so many people just accept the stories, without checking.flyboy71 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 2:56 pm I keep forgetting to grab mine when I go to the store. Apparently many have been also, so I don't feel alone.
Being the 1 year anniversary of "14 days to flatten the curve" they are pushing a bunch of stats out to celebrate. One study said 1 in 5 people polled out of 1434 surveyed know someone who died of Covid. Taken literally that extrapolates to 20% of the population or 66 million. At face value people actually take these polls and run with them unchecked and then banter about on social media as science experts.