Month: May 2021

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Mask mandates are not effective at slowing spread of Covid

Mask mandate and use efficacy in state-level COVID-19 containment

“…Containment of the COVID-19 pandemic requires evidence-based strategies to reduce transmission. Because COVID-19 can spread via respired droplets, many states have mandated mask use in public settings. Randomized control trials have not clearly demonstrated mask efficacy against respiratory viruses, and observational studies conflict on whether mask use predicts lower infection rates. We hypothesized that statewide mask mandates and mask use are associated with lower COVID-19 case growth rates in the United States.

Methods: We calculated total COVID-19 case growth and mask use for the continental United States with data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. We estimated post- mask mandate case growth in non-mandate states using median issuance dates of neighboring states with mandates. Results: Case growth was not significantly different between mandate and non-mandate states at low or high transmission rates, and surges were equivocal. Mask use predicted lower case growth at low, but not high transmission rates. Growth rates were comparable between states in the first and last mask use quintiles adjusted for normalized total cases early in the pandemic and unadjusted after peak Fall-Winter infections. Mask use did not predict Summer 2020 case growth for non-Northeast states or Fall-Winter 2020 growth for all continental states.

Conclusions: Mask mandates and use are not associated with slower state-level COVID-19 spread during COVID- 19 growth surges. Containment requires future research and implementation of existing efficacious strategies…”

Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds

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MLK on education. A quote “carefully unremembered.”

“If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, ‘brethren!’ Be careful, teachers!” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“…Despite failings, Martin Luther King, Jr., was a man of remarkable vision. He stated this over 60 years ago. Back then our colleges and universities were centers of academic excellence, stressing the importance of finding knowledge through constant questioning and by challenging the conventional verities. Today? They are occupied by close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts.

Just as King’s “I have a dream” quote is missing from the King Memorial in Washington DC, this too is excised from the canon of King’s sayings, carefully unremembered…”

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As Covid hysteria recedes, liberals return to the climate bogeyman, “Global Warming”

Just as race-hustlers insist our great country is racist and the only way to fix it is to give money and privilege to Democrat constituencies, so too the climate-hustlers insist our great planet is about to burn up in a conflagration of carbon induced hell fire and the only way to fix it is to give money and privilege to Democrat constituencies.

As you listen to this “climate specialist” explain why the world may face new rounds of hurricanes, fires, storms, etc., remember the list below of the top 50 eco-disasters that never occurred.

  1.  1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
  2.  1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989
  3.  1970: Ice Age By 2000
  4.  1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
  5.  1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
  6.  1972: New Ice Age By 2070
  7.  1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
  8.  1974: Another Ice Age?
  9.  1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph)
  10.  1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
  11.  1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes (additional link)
  12.  1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend (additional link)
  13.  1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
  14.  1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
  15.  1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
  16.  1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
  17.  1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
  18.  2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
  19.  2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
  20.  2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
  21.  2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
  22.  2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
  23.  2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
  24.  2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
  25.  2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
  26.  2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 (additional link)
  27.  2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
  28.  1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
  29.  1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
  30.  1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
  31.  1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
  32.  1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s
  33.  1980: Peak Oil In 2000
  34.  1996: Peak Oil in 2020
  35.  2002: Peak Oil in 2010
  36.  2006: Super Hurricanes!
  37.  2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
  38.  1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
  39.  1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
  40.  1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
  41.  1970s: Killer Bees!
  42.  1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production
  43.  1969: Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century
  44.  1972: Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum
  45.  1970: Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980
  46.  1988: World’s Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018
  47.  2005: Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the Year 2020
  48.  2000: Snowfalls Are Now a Thing of the Past
  49.  1989: UN Warns That Entire Nations Wiped Off the Face of the Earth by 2000 From Global Warming
  50.  2011: Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter

Top 50 eco-disasters that never occurred Assembled by Thomas Lifson

 

Doug Santo