Kansas Mask Experiment

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It’s not often that we get this kind of real-time evaluation of health & social policy.

https://news.ku.edu/2021/06/28/study-hundreds-lives-saved-in…

LAWRENCE — Despite facing cultural and political pushback, the evidence remains clear: Face masks made a difference in Kansas.

“These had a huge effect in counties that had a mask mandate,” said Donna Ginther, the Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor of Economics and director of the Institute for Policy & Social Research at the University of Kansas. “Our research found that masks reduced cases, hospitalizations and deaths in counties that adopted them by around 60% across the board.”

Today’s Federal court ruling removing the CDC mask mandate for transportation has people flinging off their masks at airports around the country. The TSA has also lifted the mask requirement for surface transportation like buses, trains and mass transit. No word yet if the CDC and local public health officials still have the legal capability to respond to a spike in COVID infections, locally.

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Easiest solution: Make Kansas fight Florida in a death match/race.

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Today’s Federal court ruling removing the CDC mask mandate for transportation has people flinging off their masks at airports around the country.

Biggest laff I had yesterday was a guy the “news” interviewed at the airport claiming it was so great to “breath the fresh air in the cabin without a mask”. “Fresh air”? To me, airliner air has always had a smell of jet exhaust to it, far from “fresh”.

Masks are rapidly becoming rare in my part of the world. Tim Horton’s and Arby’s have both removed the plexiglass shields between cashier and customers, but the grocery store still has the shields in place. None of the staff at Tim’s or Arby’s wears a mask anymore.

Steve…second booster almost up to full fizz.

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