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Masks optional by spring break
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Anonymous
Okay Trumpers maybe you need to settle down and find some other conspiracy that's keeping you down. |
Anonymous
You can call me a Trumper all you want but if you think the results of this study have any value at all, then you are the one who is anti-science. I bet you think Michael Osterholm is a "Trumper" too. |
Anonymous
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Here are Michael Osterholm's comments on mask studies from last week's podcast:
"And I still maintain that largely cloth face coverings are nothing more than some type of decorative device. They pose very little protection. Now people will cite studies. In fact, a recent one from CDC suggesting that in fact, cloth face coverings are much more effective. I will tell you across the board we have looked at these studies and there's a commentary on our website about this. Many of these studies were so poorly designed that if one of our graduate students were to have conducted that study, I would have flunked them. And we don't talk about quality of data. Whoever has a pre-printout on some element of something, the media picks it up and it's the gospel truth" |
Anonymous
| The masks are going to come off. The writing is on the wall. Now who is it that makes that call so it can be done as soon as possible. Elrich? The mcps school board? |
Anonymous
| it's 2022. people are still spreading propaganda that masks don't work because they are "over it". For 3300 dead from corona yesterday it certainly wasn't over. And then we wonder why 1 million are dead and the US has some of the worst per capita death statistics of any country and especially developed countries. |
Anonymous
The amount of death is absolutely horrific but science (that is conducted properly and shows an understanding of statistics) is not propaganda. Cloth masks do not work and this has been clear for a long time. |
Anonymous
Almost no one is wearing cloth coverings. 2nd as the main goal in a pandemic is risk reduction even if by a little, they still are more effective than not masking. |
Anonymous
Unless every student and teacher is wearing a cloth mask, what does the science say about higher quality masks? You are misleadingly arguing that cloths masks do nothing therefore all masks are worthless. |
Anonymous
oh FFS "At the outset, I want to make several points crystal clear: I support the wearing of cloth face coverings (masks) by the general public. Stop citing CIDRAP and me as grounds to not wear masks, whether mandated or not. Don't, however, use the wearing of cloth face coverings as an excuse to decrease other crucial, likely more effective, protective steps, like physical distancing......Again, I want to make it very clear that I support the use of cloth face coverings by the general public. I wear one myself on the limited occasions I'm out in public. In areas where face coverings are mandated, I expect the public to follow the mandate and wear them. " - Michael T. Osterholm https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/07/commentary-my-views-cloth-face-coverings-public-preventing-covid-19 |
Anonymous
Narrator: in fact the science said nothing of the kind. The science pointed to states like Texas and Florida with their tens of thousands dead and shrugged. Those people didn't die from wearing masks, science said. Then science pointed out which masks are most effective and suggested people wear them. (Admittedly, according to the disinformation-spreader in this thread, who is doing her "it's for the children" schtick again, all of those Floridians died in motorcycle accidents and car crashes while just happening to have covid, which originated in a black ops lab in Maryland and was deliberately spread by Soros who wants to bring communism to the USA....) Have you noticed how often this anti-masker pushes the Overton about masks not working? Tries to make the discussion about cloth masks, or young kids who are "suffering?" |
Anonymous
Literally all the children in our preschool are wearing cloth masks to comply with the school's mask mandate which complies with county guidance. I see tons of people wearing cloth masks everywhere I go. Yet the CDC claims they are 50% effective with an embarrassing and poorly conducted study. |
Anonymous
Deliberately and maliciously arguing that masks don't work because some cloth ones are useless. It's all over right wing media. This is their latest tactic. They will soon pivot to a "small children don't know how to smile," again. One of them blasted all the DMV parenting listserves with her nosense. |
Anonymous
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Many of these anti-science MAGAs wrongly citing Michael Osterholm would have an aneurysm if they saw what he said January 15, 2022
"In the face of the current surge and low pediatric vaccine rates, Osterholm said that the best thing parents can do to keep their children safe and in school during this time is get them vaccinated as soon as possible." - Michael Osterholm |
Anonymous
How effective a cloth mask is depends a lot upon what kind of cloth, how many layers and if it has a filter. |
Anonymous
This statement is from July of 2020, a few months into the pandemic. As a reminded we are now in 2022, almost two years into the pandemic and with different variants that transmit very differently than what was happening in July of 2020. And you know all this, and posted it any way, which makes you a pathetic, disgusting liar. Here is what he said on mask mandates from this last week's podcast: "We have to understand we are living in a very different time than we were two years ago. So where am I at with mask mandates? I think for most instances, they're not doing much. I wish they were. But unless you're wearing high quality respiratory protection that is routinely enforced that we've instructed the public how to do, no more of this 25% of the population wearing it under your nose, if we're not doing that, then we are not probably gaining much at all from a mandate. And we are causing ourselves lots of credibility challenges. So I hope that gives you a sense of where I'm at on this. I would talk about this in all aspects of public health. It's about common sense. It's really about using the power of science, finding that message, telling people what you know, what you don't know, and also understanding where people are at. Because if we don't bring them along with us, we will not be successful in any program that we do to address COVID." |