The Bangladesh study found minimal efficacy for surgical masks (with a 95% confidence interval that included 0!). But that efficacy was only observed in the 50+ age cohort!

Again, if masks were as effective as claimed, the data would not be so tragically weak and require so much torturing to demonstrate an astoundingly modest result.

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Didn't read all the papers, but that Nature article linked in the 2nd one is horrible. One single breathe? That's not a realistic simulation.

Can you reconcile the differences between your papers and these?
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047217v2
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jebm.12381

Another thing, as time goes on the probability of getting viral particles getting through your mask goes 1, so you will eventually get it. Learn to live with it.

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So much this. If masks are super effective but can't cause the extinction of the virus then the mask merely postpones you catching it.

If your chance of catching covid because of a mask reduces by 90% per encounter, then the impact of wearing a mask after 10 encounters lowers your chance of not catching covid to 35%. And that would be any 15 minute period you were within 6 feet of someone.

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The Bangladesh study found minimal efficacy for surgical masks (with a 95% confidence interval that included 0!). But that efficacy was only observed in the 50+ age cohort!

Again, if masks were as effective as claimed, the data would not be so tragically weak and require so much torturing to demonstrate an astoundingly modest result.

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Correct, and as anyone who has been around kids from 5 to 20 years old over the past year and a half can attest, cheap, over-used masks are also only correctly worn roughly 5 percent of the time.

It's cruel to our youth, and kids to ask/demand they wear masks at this point, and has been for some time. The efficacy/narrative was also destroyed by folks like Nancy Pelosi/Barack Obama/Gretchen Whitmer/Gavin Newsom/Cuomo/Fauci's private parties/gatherings when they didn't realize they'd be photographed, for anyone who was paying attention and isn't a die hard political leftist.

But we're talking about an academic, here, so I suppose that is irrelevant. "Just" wear a mask!

Yup. It's is absolutely demonic to force kids to wear a mask. It has zero to do with science. It probably makes covid spread more since the kids are always touching their face adjusting their masks. Kids should not grow up thinking that everyone around them is sick. Liberals are pathetic. They only care about power.

I guess, unsurprisingly (par for the course), our professor decided not to return to defend her victimhood/terrible science/statistical understanding.

So hey Keegan99, I know you follow this stuff pretty closely. It's now been nearly 2 weeks since the Kent State game.

Are we all doomed by that maskless outdoor sporting event, or was professor kill-the-babies misguided by her fears?

"How one would incorporate political ideology into lectures about diarrhea I honestly have no idea."

Aren't these political liberal ideologies and diarrhea the same thing?

The Brazos County Health website isn't the easiest to navigate or the most informative on covid, but it appears to me that new covid cases were actually higher prior to the Kent State game than they were prior. Currently, 48 people in hospitals in Brazos County have covid.

http://www.brazoshealth.org/node/94

I don't think this means necessarily that they're hospitalized due to covid, just that they're hospitalized and have tested positive.

"doom"

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It's just too fun watching her lose her mind about TAMU and covid in general.

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It's strange. I was there and I don't feel doomed... maybe doom isn't what I thought it was.

Once again we know widespread mask usage, and state-ordered mask mandates are useless. We don't need even the 'science' behind theories as to how the paper masks stop droplets/reduce spread. We have actual statistics.

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This is prompted by our Commissioner of Health saying last week that masks definitely work. Well let's see. Here is a chart showing the date the mandate was enacted. At that time the state first said it would take two weeks to work, but later amended that to four weeks. So we labeled four weeks later, see the big drop? Me either. See the huge spike while mask wearing was 90% plus. And then there is the date the mandate finally expired. Kind of ironic how the mask mandate didn't work to reduce cases until the mandate was ended, or is that paradoxical? You will note that at no time during the mandate were cases ever lower than before the mandate. And as I constantly said, what really matters is mask wearing. Throughout this period Minnesota had one of the highest mask-wearing rates in the nation, most of the time over 90%. Yeah those masks worked great, as virus collection devices. Thanks to Dave Dixon for putting the chart together.

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Just FYI, here is where Sweden ranks among the top 40 countries in COVID mortality rate despite no masks and no strict lockdowns or vaccine mandates

It’s an impressive triumph of media gaslighting that essentially no one is aware of this pic.twitter.com/aOvw07EMbX

— IM (@ianmSC) September 15, 2021

What have we done. pic.twitter.com/kB8kmnXhaU

— getrevue.co/profile/markchangizi (@MarkChangizi) September 14, 2021

The political left (of which the professor is but a small example, with a now protected/private twitter feed), globally, is using covid insanity to drive violence.

Slovenia started the medical apartheid today (unvaxxed can only buy groceries, nothing else e.g. coffee outdoors, haircuts, clothes). I left the protest when the tear gas got too much. News reports 8k ppl (so figure maybe higher)- Ljubljana is only 250k ppl. @FatEmperor #slovenia pic.twitter.com/CYYdf7IWQ3

— Lee S Dryburgh (@DryburghDotCom) September 15, 2021

FRANCE: this is how police treats medical staff in Marseille 😑
From today all unvaxxed medical staff is suspended without pay which is forcing hospitals to cancel scheduled surgeries - as anyone w/ half a brain could have predicted - IT IS NOT ABOUT HEALTH! https://t.co/kFEjrBz8B6

— Nat (@Arwenstar) September 15, 2021

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"How one would incorporate political ideology into lectures about diarrhea I honestly have no idea."

Aren't these political liberal ideologies and diarrhea the same thing?

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Nice!

Yes they are. Liberalism is a mental disorder.

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Prexys Moon said:

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It's just too fun watching her lose her mind about TAMU and covid in general.

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It's strange. I was there and I don't feel doomed... maybe doom isn't what I thought it was.

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and it's been nearly three weeks since classes started...and no DOOM yet.


Nobody calls these idiot liberals out on their doom and gloom predictions.

Prexys Moon said:

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kalltamu said:

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Prexys Moon said:

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It's just too fun watching her lose her mind about TAMU and covid in general.

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It's strange. I was there and I don't feel doomed... maybe doom isn't what I thought it was.

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and it's been nearly three weeks since classes started...and no DOOM yet.


Nobody calls these idiot liberals out on their doom and gloom predictions.

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They're melting down over the Brazos County Health District reporting 150-300 cases per day.

Of course they leave out the fact that the BCHD has said they have a backlog of almost 4200 positive test results they need to verify. And this is up from only 2100 the week before. So because of this, we're getting tons of "new" cases when many are weeks old.

The media and Covidians will ignore the details and just scream about cases, cases, cases.

When they get close to being called out for explicit/measurably false prognostications, they have to either/both (a) delete/hide previous predictions (as Dr. Dr. has) and/or (b) move the goal posts. See: Algore and Fauci.

We're doomed! Doomed, I say!