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“…In Kansas, the Secretary of the Department Health created a highly deceptive chart intended to show the effectiveness of masks, and to indicate that mask-wearing counties were considerably safer than non-mask-wearing counties. This is the chart, per the Kansas Department of Health:
Wow, the “mask” counties, shown in gold, have improved their case rates massively, and are now greatly outperforming those slackers who don’t wear masks. Right? That certainly is what the chart suggests, and the Secretary of Health specifically misrepresented the facts with this exchange:
At about the 15-minute mark of the recording, a reporter asks (according to Norman’s restatement of the hard-to-hear question, “If the no-mask counties would start masking, would it (blue line) drop, and would it dip down below the mask counties.”
Norman said, “I think it would.”
It turns out, though, that if you look carefully, the masked and unmasked counties are plotted on different axes. If you plot the two groups of counties using the same y-axis, this is what you get:
In fact, the “no mask” counties have consistently outperformed the “masked” counties, and while cases in both groups have declined somewhat, with masked counties narrowing the gap, unmasked counties continue to show far fewer cases than those where masks are required. Who revealed the government agency’s deception? Not the “mainstream” press, of course. Rather, The Sentinel, which also exposed further misleading conduct by the Kansas Health Department, also intended to misinform Kansans on the effectiveness of masks, here…”
