Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in FL schools
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Re: Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in FL schools
#2> Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth largest district in the United States, is among more than a dozen school districts that defied DeSantis to imposed mask. This week, the state Department of Education withheld funding from two of those districts.
Also notably,
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1035157226/miami-covid-19-dea...
Re: Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in FL schools
#3No matter what position one holds on the matter, it's always impressive to witness the multi-layer democracy process in the US.
Not many countries in the world would have a dispute between a governor, individual school districts, non-profit organizations and judges.
The US is a very non-ideal country, but it's a working one.
Re: Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in FL schools
#4It would be good for Florida to shed some population and thus have less weight in the electoral college.
Re: Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in FL schools
#5FWIW, the mask mandate ban appears to have precisely zero effect on the COVID situation in Florida, which has been steadily improving ever since schools opened. Here's a blog facetiously suggesting that not wearing masks in school caused the improvement, and while it's obviously written tongue in cheek, from a stats/causality point of view it's pretty much indistinguishable from a lot of arguments for masks.
https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2021/09/10/science-opening...
For better or worse, while we know properly fitted N95s etc work, it's starting to look like "casual" mask wearing (fabric masks loosely worn and taken off regularly for eating etc) is mostly just pointless hygiene theater at this point.
Re: Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in FL schools
#6No matter what position one holds on the matter, it's always impressive to witness the multi-layer democracy process in the US. Not many countries in the world would have a dispute between a governor, individual school districts, non-profit organizations and judges. The US is a very non-ideal country, but it's a working one.
>The US is a very non-ideal country, but it's a working one.
The US works because of the multilayer democracy process.
The combination of federalism and separation of powers in the US is slow, by design. It provides multiple layers of protection against bad ideas. It allows for the governance of a continent-sized country composed of 50 semi-sovereign entities, each acting as mini laboratories for good ideas that can spread elsewhere and to Washington DC.
Re: Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in FL schools
#7FWIW, the mask mandate ban appears to have precisely zero effect on the COVID situation in Florida, which has been steadily improving ever since schools opened. Here's a blog facetiously suggesting that not wearing masks in school caused the improvement, and while it's obviously written tongue in cheek, from a stats/causality point of view it's pretty much indistinguishable from a lot of arguments for masks. https://…
China has already mandated N95s, even those with the valves that aren’t allowed in much of the west. The idea I think is that they are focusing filtering inbound while cloth masks only really filter outbound (so wearing the mask protect others, vs an N95 that has a higher chance of protecting the wearer).
Florida only reports their numbers once a week now and they aren’t breaking them down by county. They look good because they decided data reporting was no longer important: https://www.newsweek.com/florida-wont-release-number-covid-d...
I guess DeSantis is taking the ostrich approach? Let’s hope this is just incompetence and not willfully trying to obscure their data. All we really know is that they keep setting records, eg record number of deaths this week https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2021/09/10/florida-...
Re: Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in FL schools
#8It would be good for Florida to shed some population and thus have less weight in the electoral college.
Stupid Chinese Bat Flu, deadly enough to be problem. Not deadly enough to be solution.
Re: Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in FL schools
#9> Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth largest district in the United States, is among more than a dozen school districts that defied DeSantis to imposed mask. This week, the state Department of Education withheld funding from two of those districts. Also notably, https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1035157226/miami-covid-19-dea...
Not sure what point you are trying to make?
Re: Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in FL schools
#10FWIW, the mask mandate ban appears to have precisely zero effect on the COVID situation in Florida, which has been steadily improving ever since schools opened. Here's a blog facetiously suggesting that not wearing masks in school caused the improvement, and while it's obviously written tongue in cheek, from a stats/causality point of view it's pretty much indistinguishable from a lot of arguments for masks. https://…
China has already mandated N95s, even those with the valves that aren’t allowed in much of the west. The idea I think is that they are focusing filtering inbound while cloth masks only really filter outbound (so wearing the mask protect others, vs an N95 that has a higher chance of protecting the wearer). Florida only reports their numbers once a week now and they aren’t breaking them down by county. They look good b…
Double masking also seems very effective:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7007e1.htm