A Look At 'The Science'

Also, a look at 'The Political Science'

It’s been a while since we ‘waited two weeks’ for covid data to come in, but it’s that time once again! Oh, the nostalgia! Nevada dropped all mask mandates on February 10th, while nearby states hemmed and hawed about the ‘correct’ time to remove masks from citizens and students.

Here are the curves for Nevada and their neighbors. (CA still masking kids, OR still masking everybody, UT dropped its mandate months and months ago, as did AZ and ID).

As predicted at the time, removing mask mandates didn’t move the curve at all. Nevada continues to experience the same drop as all their neighbors, some of which are masking and some of which aren’t. Spring works every time, masks never did.

The cynical among us believed it was never The Science guiding our response, but always the Political Science. And that position got a serious bolster this week with Biden’s polling firm instructing the Democrats to declare victory over covid. Now suddenly there’s no mask mandate in Congress, just in time for the State of the Union. And in NY, kids will finally be able to be mask-free. Not today. Not tomorrow. On Wednesday, the day after the State of the Union. Bonus quote:

"We will not stand for any bullying or ostracization or harassment for an individual or business who chooses to wear a mask as we're still going through this," Hochul said in a statement.

Yes, we all know it’s been the people in masks getting harassed the last couple years.

And in one of the most blatant pivots of the last couple years, even SNL is now giving permission to wonder if NPIs ever worked at all.

These are the very same people who told you that you were killing grandma if you didn’t wear a mask or get your shots. The people who called you selfish and immediately claimed the moral high ground, while adding lockdown deaths to covid deaths. Remember classic stories like this one?

But — stop me if you’ve heard this one before — Georgia has a curve that looks incredibly similar to their neighbors. This is yet another example of how ‘the rules’ aren’t what made the difference between a manageable crisis and overrun hospitals.

Now the same people who have been wrong this entire time are going to declare that they beat covid. The ‘leaders’ are going to tell you that things are actually really great, and there’s something wrong with Americans that won’t let them realize how awesome everything is right now.

No mention of where that ‘phenomenal negative psychological impact’ could POSSIBLY have come from. I guess we’ll have to tune into CNN to find out.