It’s always “The Science! The Silence!” as long as the science seems to point in the direction of control and repression. When it doesn’t? Well, that’s not the science they meant. From Daniel Horowitz at theblaze.com:
How long do our politicians get to ignore the results?
For months, we’ve been lectured to by the political elites that cases of coronavirus are spreading too quickly and that we must wear masks to stop the spread. The obvious fault with their act of desperation is that they can no longer mask the fact that most parts of the country have already been fully masked for months — long before the ubiquitous spread this fall.
Researchers at RationalGround.com, a clearinghouse of COVID-19 data trends run by a grassroots group of data analysts, computer scientists, and actuaries, did an analysis of all 50 states divided by those that had mask mandates and those that did not. Justin Hart, co-founder of the website, posted the results in a Twitter thread and shared with me the data analysis:
BREAKING! Do mask mandates work? Our analysis below. We looked at cases on days where mask mandates were in place v… https://t.co/nWbM4P0s1Y— Justin Hart (@Justin Hart)1608488744.0
They studied the number of cases over a 229-day period from May 1 through Dec. 15 and divided the results of the two study groups by days with mask mandates and days without mask mandates. The non-mandate data group includes both states that never had a mandate and those that did at some point, but data set included only the days they did not have a mask mandate.