Etiquette



DP Etiquette

First rule: Don't be a jackass.

Other rules: Do not attack or insult people you disagree with. Engage with facts, logic and beliefs. Out of respect for others, please provide some sources for the facts and truths you rely on if you are asked for that. If emotion is getting out of hand, get it back in hand. To limit dehumanizing people, don't call people or whole groups of people disrespectful names, e.g., stupid, dumb or liar. Insulting people is counterproductive to rational discussion. Insult makes people angry and defensive. All points of view are welcome, right, center, left and elsewhere. Just disagree, but don't be belligerent or reject inconvenient facts, truths or defensible reasoning.

Saturday, December 18, 2021

A quick note about COVID and mask wearing

A Qanon anti-mask conspiracy crackpot at
an anti-mask protest


A study published Nov. 11, 2021 in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine comments:
INTRODUCTION  
This study examines a hypothesized association of face covering mandates with COVID-19 mortality decline across 44 countries in 2 continents.
METHODS 
In a retrospective cohort study, changes in COVID-19-related daily mortality rate per million population from February 15 to May 31, 2020 were compared between 27 countries with and 17 countries without face mask mandates in nearly 1 billion (911,446,220 total) people. Longitudinal mixed effect modeling was applied and adjusted for over 10 relevant demographic, social, clinical, and time dependent confounders.

RESULTS 
Average COVID-19 mortality per million was 288.54 in countries without face mask policies and 48.40 in countries with face mask policies. 
CONCLUSIONS 
This study's significant results show that face mask mandates were associated with lower COVID-19 deaths rates compared with countries without mandates. These findings support use of face masks to prevent excess COVID-19 deaths, and should be advised during airborne disease epidemics.
 
So, when some QAnon crackpot or anti-masker extremist tells you that masks do not work, or some cynical, self-serving Republican politician tells you that refusing to wear a mask is a matter of freedom over tyranny, a person can tell them two things. First, one that they are full of crap or maybe something more civil. It is a matter of public health, not politics. Second, one can also say that anti-maskers are personally responsible for lots of needless deaths and lots of needless economic damage.


QAnon conspiracy crackpottery in high gear doing its thing, i.e.,
poisoning minds


Arizona Republicans protesting the tyranny of mask mandates:
a popular chant: 
I CAN'T BREATHE!! I CAN'T BREATHE!!  I CAN'T BREATHE!!


Wonder if she's pro-abortion

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