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Tennessee Data for Masked vs. Unmasked Counties
[Townhall] Here in Tennessee, one of the few states without a statewide mask-mandate, much pressure has been placed upon Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to "do something." Since lockdowns are thankfully for the most part out of the question here, the pressure has centered on establishing that mandate the mask-Karens have been longing for. Even former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a medical doctor, has gotten in on the action, begging Lee to pull the trigger in a Facebook post earlier this month that blamed rising case numbers not on the winter months when such viruses always tend to spread, but on supposedly unmasked rural counties.Over the allotted period, counties with mask mandates saw 4.7% of their population infected while those without them saw a 4.6% infection rate. Interestingly, Hawkins County, which let its mandate expire at the end of September, had 4.3% of its population infected, while Carter County had 5.1% infected with a mandate in place. Both have nearly identical populations. When you combine this Tennessee data with Rational Ground's data from Florida and masked vs unmasked states nationwide that I wrote about in last week's column, the picture is increasingly clear. It's time to face the fact that mask mandates DO NOT WORK to stop or even slow the spread of COVID-19. Posted by: Bobby 2020-12-29 |
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