Masks Didn't Slow COVID Spread: New Study

[Jade Dragon]

Notice how deeply he had to dig to find that garbage?

I sneezed in a mask and it blocked it. The virus can't travel outside the respiration fluids. It's kindergarten stuff and yet these doofuses still don't get it. Do they still expect the mask to protect them from the unmasked?

[Althea]

I sneezed in a mask and it blocked it. The virus can't travel outside the respiration fluids. It's kindergarten stuff and yet these doofuses still don't get it. Do they still expect the mask to protect them from the unmasked?

They only do what trump tells them to do. Ironically, he got vaccinated in secret, but won't come out and encourage the under educated to get the vaccine.

Once it was no longer an election ploy, he lost interest in the vaccine and went golfing.

[volsrock]

There really is no conversation here if you can't figure out something blocking sneezes and coughs you are literally the dumbest piece of ass snot on the planet

How did u suck cocks with a mask on? Fag

[Legion]

Overall, we rate Townhall Right Biased and Questionable based on consistent one-sided reporting that always favors the right and numerous failed fact checks.

Is the report incorrect?

I'll understand if you don't know, of course, cum gargler.

[anatta]

I sneezed in a mask and it blocked it. The virus can't travel outside the respiration fluids. It's kindergarten stuff and yet these doofuses still don't get it. Do they still expect the mask to protect them from the unmasked?

the virus is aerosol infectious for all intents - droplets to hard surfaces were never that big a risk factor
Masks give one a delusional feeling of protection - they do little except litter up the parking lots

[anatta]

In summary, mask mandates and use were poor predictors of COVID-19 spread in US states. Case growth was independent of mandates at low and high rates of community spread, and mask use did not predict case growth during the Summer or Fall-Winter waves.
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cant get any clearer then this. i still see way too many people wearing the do-rags

[anatta]

In summary, mask mandates and use were proor predictors of COVID-19 spread in US states. [OP link]
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Like practically everything else the country was put through, masks were largely pointless.

lockdowns scerwed up the economy and that is why Trump lost. POTUS takes the blame for shit economy no mater

Remember it was like 2 weeks? the 30 days, then EXTENDED,,WTF? why did we do this ?

[katzgar]

How did u suck cocks with a mask on? Fag

you will never live your best life until you come out and be your gay reality

[katzgar]

ALLOW ME TO ILLUSTRATE YOUR IGNORANCE:




FEEL FREE TO DIRECT YOUR WHINING TO THE U. OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCHERS...

see this is why smart people keep calling you a moron. The face mask has nothing to do with the virus directly, it has everything to do with the aerosols. This should have been obvious when I said coughs and sneezes. Your meme has nothing to do with my comment. You inbreds get old.

[katzgar]

I sneezed in a mask and it blocked it. The virus can't travel outside the respiration fluids. It's kindergarten stuff and yet these doofuses still don't get it. Do they still expect the mask to protect them from the unmasked?

exactly, they are severely retarded

[Darth Omar]

lockdowns scerwed up the economy and that is why Trump lost. POTUS takes the blame for shit economy no mater

Remember it was like 2 weeks? the 30 days, then EXTENDED,,WTF? why did we do this ?

Great question for future historians.

[martin]

TELL THE PEOPLE WHO DID THE STUDY, LITTLE GIRL...

One study. Here's a link about many studies having contrary findings. The adverse effects of "prolonged wearing" of masks referenced in the study you posted makes sense though those effects are unrelated to Covid and don't apply to the limited ordinary use of masks - when shopping, etc.

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118

[Micawber]

The study by this assistant prof in Kentucky and his brother? is statistics of "minima" and "maxima" infection rates only, it appears.
17 published papers this one not peer reviewed according to the OP's link chain

What about the rest of the damn time? He showed using CDC data that mandates did not predict lowering rates
when the rate was the very highest and then the very lowest.... Huh?

[Hoosier Daddy]

NOTICE HOW DESPERATELY YOU TRY TO ATTACK TOWN HALL, INSTEAD OF THE STUDY THEY ARE REPORTING?

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE DID THE STUDY, STUPIDFUCKS.


MORE OF THE LEFT'S COVID LIES EXPOSED.


WE'LL HAVE A DIRECT LINK FROM THE CORON-A-CRATS TO THER COLLUSION WITH THE CHINESE TRO SPREAD THE PANDEMIC BEFORE IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE....HEADS WILL ROLL...

their study actually tries to link mask mandates, not the actual wearing of masks. anyone who denies that masks stop the spread of respiratory diseases, or almost stops, is an idiot. full stop. in texas, during the mask mandate, i saw many public businesses allowing dumbfuck non-mask wearing morons to shop. masks in areas of low population are not as critical as in other areas.

for real info on how well masks work, which party and its leaders and voters got infected during the height of the pandemic, due to less mask wearing, if any? TRUMP, PEOPLE CLOSE TO TRUMP, SECRET SERVICE GUYS ASSIGNED TO BE NEAR TRUMP, PEOPLE WHO WENT TO HIS DUMB ASS PEP RALLIES....

get it?

[Yakuda]

...at least not with any "statistical significance"....


IS THERE ANYTHING THAT THE CHINESE/UN/WHO/FAUCI-CDC/CORON-A-CRAT CABAL HAS NOT LIED TO US ABOUT????


Masks Didn't Slow COVID Spread: New Study

New findings reported Tuesday in a University of Louisville study challenge what has been the prevailing belief that mask mandates are necessary to slow the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus. The study notes that "80% of US states mandated masks during the COVID-19 pandemic" and while "mandates induced greater mask compliance, [they] did not predict lower growth rates when community spread was low (minima) or high (maxima)." Among other things, the study—conducted using data from the CDC covering multiple seasons—reports that "mask mandates and use are not associated with lower SARS-CoV-2 spread among US states."




"Our findings do not support the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 transmission rates decrease with greater public mask use," notes the U of L report. Researchers stated that "masks may promote social cohesion as rallying symbols during a pandemic, but risk compensation can also occur" before listing some observed risks that accompany mask wearing:

Prolonged mask use (>4 hours per day) promotes facial alkalinization and inadvertently encourages dehydration, which in turn can enhance barrier breakdown and bacterial infection risk. British clinicians have reported masks to increase headaches and sweating and decrease cognitive precision. Survey bias notwithstanding, these sequelae are associated with medical errors. By obscuring nonverbal communication, masks interfere with social learning in children. Likewise, masks can distort verbal speech and remove visual cues to the detriment of individuals with hearing loss; clear face-shields improve visual integration, but there is a corresponding loss of sound quality.

In summary, mask mandates and use were poor predictors of COVID-19 spread in US states. Case growth was independent of mandates at low and high rates of community spread, and mask use did not predict case growth during the Summer or Fall-Winter waves. Strengths of our study include using two mask metrics to evaluate association with COVID-19 growth rates; measuring normalized case growth in mandate and non-mandate states at comparable times to quantify the likely effect of mandates; and deconvolving the effect of mask use by examining case growth in states with variable mask use.















https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spence...dates-n2589990

Fau chi min knew this but be wore the mask for show. The leftist cunts had to find out how much they could get away with and it's startling how many Americans rolled over for them like $10 whores. These evil cunts knew this was all BS. Like the meme I saw of fau chi min last week saying you should wear sunscreen so the person next to you doesn't get sun burned. The leftist cunts actually thought masks had unidirectional protection. It didn't protect the wearer but it protected other around the wearer. You have to be a fucking retard to be a leftist.