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Sinclair stations are set to air a monologue falsely claiming masks and lockdown precautions do not help slow the spread of COVID-19
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Cicada
(4,533 posts)Look at figure 1 to see how deadly this view can be
https://www.virginiamercury.com/2020/06/18/the-most-important-variable-that-you-can-control-vcu-research-shows-masks-can-dramatically-decrease-covid-19-deaths/
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Thekaspervote
(32,794 posts)Thats dotard speak for herd immunity..or in more plain language 2-3 million of us will die and we dont care
former9thward
(32,082 posts)Hugin
(33,207 posts)SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)and hate that they share my name.
Hela
(440 posts)Can they be sued for spreading misinformation about the virus? I'm thinking class action in areas that can show a rise in cases after broadcasts. Wouldn't that be a treat if we could use COVID to bring down one of the worst things that's happened to independent media in the last 20 years?
samnsara
(17,636 posts)..its also the ABC channel that will carry Joes town hall tonight.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)Confidence in masks grew in June with news about two hair stylists in Missouri who tested positive for COVID-19. Both wore a double-layered cotton face covering or surgical mask while working. And although they passed on the infection to members of their households, their clients seem to have been spared (more than half reportedly declined free tests). Other hints of effectiveness emerged from mass gatherings. At Black Lives Matter protests in US cities, most attendees wore masks. The events did not seem to trigger spikes in infections, yet the virus ran rampant in late June at a Georgia summer camp, where children who attended were not required to wear face coverings. Caveats abound: the protests were outdoors, which poses a lower risk of COVID-19 spread, whereas the campers shared cabins at night, for example. And because many non-protesters stayed in their homes during the gatherings, that might have reduced virus transmission in the community. Nevertheless, the anecdotal evidence builds up the picture, says Theo Vos, a health-policy researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle.
More-rigorous analyses added direct evidence. A preprint study posted in early August (and not yet peer reviewed), found that weekly increases in per-capita mortality were four times lower in places where masks were the norm or recommended by the government, compared with other regions. Researchers looked at 200 countries, including Mongolia, which adopted mask use in January and, as of May, had recorded no deaths related to COVID-19. Another study looked at the effects of US state-government mandates for mask use in April and May. Researchers estimated that those reduced the growth of COVID-19 cases by up to 2 percentage points per day. They cautiously suggest that mandates might have averted as many as 450,000 cases, after controlling for other mitigation measures, such as physical distancing.
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Although scientists cant control many confounding variables in human populations, they can in animal studies. Researchers led by microbiologist Kwok-Yung Yuen at the University of Hong Kong housed infected and healthy hamsters in adjoining cages, with surgical-mask partitions separating some of the animals. Without a barrier, about two-thirds of the uninfected animals caught SARS-CoV-2, according to the paper published in May. But only about 25% of the animals protected by mask material got infected, and those that did were less sick than their mask-free neighbours (as measured by clinical scores and tissue changes).
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Nevertheless, most scientists are confident that they can say something prescriptive about wearing masks. Its not the only solution, says Gandhi, but I think it is a profoundly important pillar of pandemic control. As Digard puts it: Masks work, but they are not infallible. And, therefore, keep your distance.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8
spanone
(135,877 posts)maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)Would that Liberals had purchased as many stations in the last 2 decades...