Originally Posted by
Duffman
Recent numerical modeling? You mean studies? If so, post them and tell me why that is enough to dismiss all the counter evidence. Previous studies are hardly a mixed bag. You'll have to search long and hard before you find anything that even casts significant doubt into the effectiveness of masks.
Also, what "bias" would a government be pushing by trying to get people to wear masks? It doesn't help facial recognition, they can't read your mind from a mask, what possible reason would the govt have for trying to encourage people to wear masks aside from limiting the spread of a respiratory illness during a pandemic?
Also, according to the latest data:
https://www.covidexitstrategy.org/
OK is not doing too good. IA is about the same and MT is doing much worse, but because it's so rural they've been socially distancing long before it was cool.
Where I'm annoyed is you've made a lot of big claims counter to everything I've read with no citations to back them up.
Oklahoma had one COVID death yesterday, Iowa zero and Montana zero. All those non-mask wearers seem to be doing fine as of now.
You can test plenty of people in their 20s and 30s and 40s for COVID and they can all come back positive, but that doesn’t mean much unless they walk into a nursing home and start coughing.