Best option is not to go out at all if you are sick with ANY infectious disease..It'd be a shame if we completely abandoned them. I mean, if you have the masks and any symptoms of transmissable disease it makes sense to wear them.
Besides, it gets cold here so a face covering can be helpful.
Based in age adjusted rates Florida is 31st and California is 39th. Though based on excess deaths there was evidence that California (and many other states) significantly undercounted early in the pandemic compared to Florida so who really knows??
On the other hand your health insurance premium will go up much more than those taxes (if they go up at all) ever will.
The pandemic won't go away just because you don't like it and got tired of it.
And as I've pointed out repeatedly Florida's policies were terrible at keeping the infection per capita low, still in the top 10 ten worst in the nation. There is nothing special in Florida's policies that explain the lower adjusted death rates, they don't have miracle cures, (though there is evidence that at one point they were hoarding some effective treatments.) Simply put if their policies were more restrictive their infection rate would have been lower and thus their death rate would have been even lower still. Florida policy cost lives.
You have repeatedly pointed out nothing useful. Infections per capita is a function of testing and didn’t really matter much once vaccines were widely available. It is about hospitalizations and deaths.
Deaths per capita and hospitalizations per capita are definitely more important than infections per capita. These are things that affect the healthcare services which can impact us all. If someone personally hasn’t been impacted by denied services due to full hospitals, well… lucky them. In my state, I (and my family members) have been affected.
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You just piled up a bunch of strawmen yourself, completely free of facts.
Lol. From a series of working papers mostly written by undergraduates…for practice. One of the authors is from Cato Institute, FWIW. Also, New Zealand and Australia would like a word with the authors.
I wonder if this is the JH study a maskless guy was crowing about at the County Election Board meeting. He kept saying the study proved that we didn't have to do anything and that only 0.2% of people died. Just fodder for the clueless.
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No, don't be done, stand and debate, it's fun! I can tell you I hold/held 2 board certs but let one lapse as I no longer practice that specialty. In that specialty, I spent years taking care of "at-risk" patients and also ran an ICU, so I am quite familiar with infectious disease standards of care and respiratory illnesses. We knew very early on that the virus was smaller than the pores thru the mask, and that masks are effective mostly against droplets. Studioes later, gov't is still demanding masks. Like I said, standards of care require isolating the sick, not the healthy, and preventive therapies, especially an untested one, should always be targeted to those most at-risk. mRNA vaccines have never been used large scale, but were used here for simplicity and expedience. I had the virus and got vaxxed. I got a second vax because I wanted to vacation with my family and the venues required us to be "vaxxed"--defined as vax x 2, which is exposure x 2. But, infection + vax X 1 is not considered "vaxxed", but meets the definition of exposure x 2. How stupid is this? Very stupid I assure you. Science? None. They turned off their brains. Where are the physician leaders who go along with this ascientific nonsense?
What ? I thought everyone should get infected to achieve "herd immunity" and all would be well
If you ignore Long Covid ...
