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None of that contradicts anything I have been saying. Not all masks are equal or effective compared to professional ones. Most in the public are not using professional grade masks. People can still be spreading infections wearing cloth masks.

The main problem I read about Sweden's approach was that, like us, it devastated their nursing home population. They apparently did not do enough about protecting the elderly. Not sure I get your point about lack of economic gain though. The goal would not be gain, but mitigating loss. If...

You can't rely on these mortality numbers as if they are accurate. And to project from these numbers just increases the error. I would have thought that people would have figured out that these projection models are meaningless by now because the assumptions have been so far off. First we don't...

That's the assumption. That hasn't been tested. What is probably true is that social distancing is most effective with or without masking. Even with masking there are degrees of effectiveness. Not all masks offer equal effectiveness. To say if two people wear a mask one is protected from the...

This is a shoddy study and it was even admitted as such by researchers. Unless you have randomized and controlled conditions at best this is just based on common sense assumptions and not scientifically verifiable conclusions.

Other countries are opening up schools. Some Scandinavian countries never even shut down. They chose to focus on protecting the most vulnerable and let herd immunity proceed naturally for the rest of their population. It's what we should have done from the beginning but unfortunately...

News goes through an editorial process so is filtered before being broadcasted. It seems clear to me that not all news is filtered the same and what gets put out is a conscious effort on the part of those who control the editorial process to have an intended effect. Mostly, it is to draw clicks...

I have seen no evidence that masks alone in general help. The only effective masks are N95 type and those are not typically used by the general public. Face coverings in general are probably not making much of a difference. Yet I see people wearing them on the beach or in other outdoor...

I agree that COVID appears more contagious than influenza, but then again, influenza has been around a very long time and people have gotten used to it so it is not scrutinized in the same way. It still kills up to 40-60,000 annually in this country. But COVID fatalities and how they are counted...

If you factor out the nursing homes and assisted living fatalities you are basically looking at numbers similar to a bad flu season.

I agree with this but unfortunately the "climate" is being manipulated by the media. I was at the gym this morning on the cycle and was able to watch two tvs side by side with opposing news channels covering the same news conference.. One channel captioning that schools are being mandated to...