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Masks no longer required at NY healthcare facilities

NYT: Masks did nothing

Fight the Anti-Trans Backlash With Accountability, Not Silence

Re Dahl: Rewriting Children’s Books to be Politically Correct - "We regularly review the language to ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed by all.”

Report: In a Staggering Number of Chicago Schools, Zero Students Are Proficient in Reading or Math

Media censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story was horrible and then it got even worse. Hunter Biden laptop coverage went from guilt and fear to revisionist history

New York City Mayor Eric Adams Takes a Shot at Ron DeSantis. Hits Himself Instead.

TRUMP’S APPEAL BECOMING MORE SELECTIVE

The campaign against Musk reflects a degree of desperation as the control of social media collapsed with his purchase.

US joins Security Council condemnation of Israeli settlements, violence from ‘all parties’

The Fall of Nicola Sturgeon

Polish High Court Rules National Sovereignty Supersedes EU Authority, EU Sues

Mood In Washington Shifting In Favor Of Jets For Ukraine

Escalating the US vs Russia war. Really?

Biden Went to Kyiv Because There’s No Going Back

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'Biden Went to Kyiv Because There’s No Going Back'

And he snubbed Ohio. Pretty much sums it up.

#1 Maniac on 2023-02-22 09:33 (Reply)

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NYT: Masks did nothing

The opinion article, by Bret Stephens, is based on the Cochrane meta-analysis discussed on a previous thread. The Cochrane meta-analysis did not find that "masks did nothing," but "We are uncertain whether wearing masks or N95/P2 respirators helps to slow the spread of respiratory viruses based on the studies we assessed."

Most of the studies in the Cochrane meta-analysis did not occur during the COVID pandemic. Nor did many of them study actual mask-wearing. As pointed out in the meta-analysis, "The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions."

The largest randomized study (N=342,183) found a clear benefit from wearing masks. See Abaluck et al., Impact of community masking on COVID-19: A cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh, Science 2021.

#2 Zachriel on 2023-02-22 09:38 (Reply)

For most left wing governors and mayors the masks mandates and shutdowns gave them a tingling up their leg. Seriously they enjoyed it in ways only Lenin would have understood. While you and I were not happy seeing 20 police raid a gym because they didn't comply with shutdowns and go bankrupt the governors and mayors were sexually excited by this show of force. If the police had beaten a few of the protestors to death they governors and mayors would have had orgasms. THEY INTEND TO USE THAT POWER AGAIN! and again, and again. THAT is why the left simply cannot abide any study that reports that masks don't work. The masks were perfect. A visual proof of subjugation and it could be used by Karens to turn you in for a beating. It was perfect without regard to it's efficacy. Can you imagine how those 6 cops felt pulling that lone surfer off the ocean for surfing without a mask on and roughing him up. I bet those police still have wet dreams over that moment. THAT is what Zach is lobbying for. Zach has a video set on replay on his PC of the Canadian Mounty running over the maskless crippled man and killing him. Every time there is a study finding masks don't work Zach replays that video again and again until he is soothed enough that he can spout his lies. He lives for power and control and tyranny is good for him. See! Masks DO WORK. They give the left great pleasure and reinfocre the power they hold over you.

#2.1 JustMe on 2023-02-22 11:21 (Reply)

"The largest randomized study (N=342,183) found a clear benefit from wearing masks. See Abaluck et al., Impact of community masking on COVID-19: A cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh, Science 2021."

So that study reported that mask wearing reduced infections from 8.6% in the control group to 7.63% in the intervention group. A whole 11.6% percent decrease from an already small number.

WOW! WOW! What a difference! And ALL we had to do was mask everybody...what a deal!

#2.2 eeyore on 2023-02-22 11:51 (Reply)

eeyore: A whole 11.6% percent decrease from an already small number.

An 11.6% decrease when people are dying by the hundreds of thousands is significant. In addition, those >=60 years old saw a 35.3% reduction in symptomatic seroprevalence; again, a significant result.

eeyore: And ALL we had to do was mask everybody...what a deal!

Mask wearing was voluntary but encouraged at the community level. That allowed the researchers to tie the results not only to mask wearing, but to the strategy used to encourage mask wearing. The strategy resulted in an increase in mask wearing from 13.3% to 42.3%. The results would have been even better if there had been, in fact, universal mask wearing.

Pandemics are not new to humanity. Most people will probably do better next time.

#2.3 Zachriel on 2023-02-22 12:27 (Reply)

Quibble-DickZ: The results would have been even better if there had been, in fact, universal mask wearing.

Again falsely claiming an outcome unsupported by any real evidence.

#2.3.1 Zachinoff on 2023-02-22 14:28 (Reply)

"again, a significant result."

No, that's just your opinion. It's not enough to justify wholesale changes to society and that's mine. Linking to that study proves nothing except to those who want to believe already.

#2.3.2 eeyore on 2023-02-22 15:51 (Reply)

eeyore: Linking to that study proves nothing except to those who want to believe already.

The study is scientific evidence that masks can reduce the spread of COVID, especially reducing exposure among older people. That addresses the original claim.

#2.3.3 Zachriel on 2023-02-22 16:02 (Reply)

"TRUMP’S APPEAL"

Just part of the fullscale attack on Trump by the left and some on the right. Trump is the only candidate with credibility to fight the swamp. This is the swamp fighting back.

But to be realistic it is working. Too many people are asleep not aware of what's going on. For the left/communists this is good. For most Americans this will not go well.

#3 OneGuy on 2023-02-22 09:57 (Reply)

QUOTE:

New York City Mayor Eric Adams Takes a Shot at Ron DeSantis. . . You know this, Mayor Adams, and you’ve talked (accurately) about crime pushing people out of NYC. Florida’s crime rate meanwhile is at a 50 year low.

#4 Zachriel on 2023-02-22 10:23 (Reply)

Those look like the CDC's latest numbers. Unfortunately, I believe their latest data is from 2020. Not really germaine in this case.

#4.1 DemGeezer on 2023-02-22 11:31 (Reply)

“If you torture the data long enough, they confess—even to crimes that were never committed.”

#4.1.1 Zachinoff on 2023-02-22 12:08 (Reply)

DemGeezer: Unfortunately, I believe their latest data is from 2020.

Feel free to provide more recent data.

#4.1.2 Zachriel on 2023-02-22 12:28 (Reply)

Feel free to provide data that supports your point. We don't convince Repubs by using data that was collected before Adams was in office, my friend.

#4.1.2.1 DemGeezer on 2023-02-22 15:19 (Reply)

DemGeezer: Feel free to provide data that supports your point.

Some data is better than unsupported claims. Do you have any data to support the claim that New York City's homicide rate is now higher than Miami's or Jacksonville?

Meanwhile, NYC expected to record double-digit dip in murders for 2022.

#4.1.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-02-22 15:33 (Reply)

Rewriting children's books ... it is still censorship of the original work by PC vendors.
Media censorship of Hunter Biden laptop merges into revisionist history ... still censorship by the PC venders.
The campaign against Musk ... PC vendors are pissed that they can't control the narrative.

#5 indyjonesouthere on 2023-02-22 13:26 (Reply)

Hey, if God's word can be rejiggered to make Ze/Zim/Zeir non-gendered, what does Roald Dahl have to complain about? The fact that Shakespeare now comes with a trigger warning and a link to the suicide hotline in lieu of Hamlet's soliloquy?

#5.1 Jerryskids on 2023-02-22 18:26 (Reply)

" Report: In a Staggering Number of Chicago Schools, Zero Students Are Proficient in Reading or Math"

The've responded to Fox News to say that Chicago is on par with other large urban areas in the US.

#6 JK Brown on 2023-02-22 21:27 (Reply)

Equity.

#6.1 DeGaulle on 2023-02-23 03:41 (Reply)

Re "Masks Did Nothing": Well, that's hardly the only thing that people believe in that does nothing.

#7 Hairless Joe on 2023-02-23 14:53 (Reply)

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