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Covid Hospitalized Patients per 100k – 25 Most vs. 25 Least Stringent States

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I think it’s worth noting that the difference between stringent and non stringentin the USA is dramatically different then say the difference in policy between Brazil and China. It may be that the big things - lock down at certain mathematical points versus universal masking mandates makes a huge difference.

Re: Covid Hospitalized Patients per 100k – 25 Most vs. 25 Least Stringent States

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States arent the ones Karening around without a mask in enclosed spaces. How about a randomized study looking into social media history of hospitalized patients to get the % of those actually following best practices?

Or just breaking it down by mask compliance rates per county. Masks are heavily political, but averaged across the size of a state things shift from red/blue to shades of purple. At the county level, these things seem (anecdotally) to separate much further. The hot spots around here were all in the rural areas with low mask rates.

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States arent the ones Karening around without a mask in enclosed spaces. How about a randomized study looking into social media history of hospitalized patients to get the % of those actually following best practices?

Other than the geriatric and the obese, its the poor who are the most disproportionately hospitalized.

Its the poor who are also most harmed by the harsh economic effects of the covid response.

Re: Covid Hospitalized Patients per 100k – 25 Most vs. 25 Least Stringent States

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I think it’s worth noting that the difference between stringent and non stringentin the USA is dramatically different then say the difference in policy between Brazil and China. It may be that the big things - lock down at certain mathematical points versus universal masking mandates makes a huge difference.

We can't honestly use China as a data point, seeing as how they have been censoring from the beginning, and arresting activists who try to report on covid deaths.

https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/cai-wei

Re: Covid Hospitalized Patients per 100k – 25 Most vs. 25 Least Stringent States

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Very interesting. What conclusions can we draw from this?

Given that the author is an anti-masker conspiracy theorist, we can learn that one can score Internet brownie points in the anti-masker conspiracy theory community by plotting garbage data without providing sources or context.
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