Fauci ‘not sure’ why Texas doesn’t have COVID uptick after nixing masks - Who could have predicted this?

https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/fauci-not-sure-why-texas-doesnt-have-covid-uptick-after-nixing-masks/
It’s been some five weeks since Texas lifted its mask mandate, and there has yet to be an explosion of COVID-19 cases.
It’s something Dr. Anthony Fauci can’t quite explain.
“I’m not really quite sure,” he told MSNBC this week. “It could be they’re doing things outdoors.”
Daily cases in Texas hovered above 7,000 in early March, when Gov. Greg Abbott lifted the state’s mask rules, leaving it up to individuals and organizations to make their own decisions.
Now, according to the Centers for Disease Control, new cases of COVID-19 are under 4,000.
Fauci noted there can be a delay in how and when cases manifest.
“Often you have to wait a few weeks before you see the effect of what you’re doing right now,” he said.
“I hope they continue to tick down. If they do, that would be great but there’s always the concern when you pull back on methods — particularly on things like indoor dining and bars that are crowded — you could see a delay and then all of a sudden tick right back up,” he said.
“We’ve been fooled before by situations where people begin to open back up. Nothing happens and then all of a sudden several weeks later things explode on you, so we’ve got to be careful we don’t prematurely judge that,” he added.
President Biden had slammed the decision to ease the state’s mask mandate as “neanderthal thinking.”

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That's the article. Can't wait to see him change his statement in a week.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

I don't know Fauci, it seems like something you SHOULD know, or at least be in the middle of trying to find out.

But I get it, Science is about being right and ignoring anything you claimed being wrong. Totally.

"Wear 2 masks"
"Well I mean, there's no proof it helps but you can if you want"

How am I supposed to take this nigger seriously?

 

[derpherp2]

"Wear 2 masks"
"Well I mean, there's no proof it helps but you can if you want"

How am I supposed to take this nigger seriously?

Oh god he was the source of that?

You'd think TOP HEALTH MAN wouldn't be a bumbling idiot relying on connotation and implication (I didn't say it wouldn't not help, durrhurrrrr) on whatever he says so he wouldn't be wrong, but we do live in a world where another TOP HEALTH WOMAN is obesity incarnate.

 

[TowinKarz]

When Wal-Mart demonstrated the ability to get bottled water to New Orleans ahead of the National Guard post-Katrina, the patronage-installed head of FEMA had to go....

But this guy who says three masks and two vaccinations aren't enough to ensure you won't get sick from "new variants" that spread exclusively through churches, republican political rallies and eBay.....? And there's nothing he can do because the President doesn't have the power to Constitutionally imprison you all for 2 years to flatten the curve? And whines that he would've stopped it all if only people weren't so selfish about their "right" to kill Grandma that they protested self-imprisonment? The guy at the helm when the ONLY thing the CDC allegedly exists to respond to, couldn't respond?

Still employed.

 

[Vulva Gape]

Not against masks or anything, but Florida and Texas being fine is REALLY making me scratch my head.

I know some people in Texas who say most businesses are requiring them and people wear them when they're inside, so it might be similar to mask-mandated states just not de jure.

 

[knobslobbin]

Notice we are focusing on cases and not deaths almost exclusively now.

edit: @Vulva Gape did you ever figure out which vaccine DMX died from?

 

[Blake Chortles]

Not against masks or anything, but Florida and Texas being fine is REALLY making me scratch my head.

I know some people in Texas who say most businesses are requiring them and people wear them when they're inside, so it might be similar to mask-mandated states just not de jure.

Businesses in Florida usually have signs but its almost never enforced. Havent worn a mask in public in 9 months and only got asked to leave once at a mom n pop shop. Id say at this point 1/2 to 2/3rds wear masks indoors in public. At private gatherings its near 0%. Church is like 25%. Near 0% outdoors. The important part is its a choice.

 

[Polyboros2]

Not against masks or anything, but Florida and Texas being fine is REALLY making me scratch my head.

I know some people in Texas who say most businesses are requiring them and people wear them when they're inside, so it might be similar to mask-mandated states just not de jure.

I wonder, has there been any news about the State taking any control over testing procedures?

 

[Plank]

If it makes you feel any better, Georgia never got its "deadly spike" after only just *gasp* 2 weeks of lockdown.
At least no more than any of the states that stayed locked up and paranoid.

Almost a year ago there were data scientists posting comparisons of cities or areas where one had idiotic mask mandates right next to ones that didn't and the infection/death rates were essentially identical. That data was actively ignored or worse.

This fuckwit Fauci isn't being faced with some anomaly that can't be explained.

He knows they do nothing. But once Trump was resisting wearing the silly and pointless masks it became locked into the all so tiresome TDS 'if Trump is against it, it must be pushed for without exception'. And add in some 'yes the masks do nothing, but it helps the plebs to take this (nothingburger of a) virus seriously. It is for their own good since they are too stupid to manage without our guidance.

 

[TowinKarz]

Not against masks or anything, but Florida and Texas being fine is REALLY making me scratch my head.

I know some people in Texas who say most businesses are requiring them and people wear them when they're inside, so it might be similar to mask-mandated states just not de jure.

The masks-in-stores is just a CYA, the stores don't want to be civilly liable for someone claiming they killed Grandma by letting a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend shop there without a mask. They can't possibly be helping because people put them on walking in and take them off walking out, meaning that by the time you get in/out you've likely already been "infected" in the parking lot.

Same with restaurants, you have to wear one to get inside, and then spend 90% of the time without it because, well you have to EAT.

Masks weren't the reason for anything going up or down. Even at the height of the panic in 2020, even though it technically was illegal for me to walk around in public without one? I did anyway, only 2 people ever had a problem, both very aggressively telling me I was breaking the law. When challenged to call the police, they just flipped the bird and walked on. Compliance was never 100% and is about 60% (and dropping) right now from what I see on the streets, probably out of habit.

Masks are useless except as a placebo for overly-skittsh people and businesses who don't want to lose the next 5 years of profits in endless litigation over the hospital bills of everyone who shopped there in 2020.

 

[TFT-A9]

Almost a year ago there were data scientists posting comparisons of cities or areas where one had idiotic mask mandates right next to ones that didn't and the infection/death rates were essentially identical. That data was actively ignored or worse.

This fuckwit Fauci isn't being faced with some anomaly that can't be explained.

He knows they do nothing. But once Trump was resisting wearing the silly and pointless masks it became locked into the all so tiresome TDS 'if Trump is against it, it must be pushed for without exception'. And add in some 'yes the masks do nothing, but it helps the plebs to take this (nothingburger of a) virus seriously. It is for their own good since they are too stupid to manage without our guidance.

This is what happens when you work backwards from a presupposition about what is, looking for things that support that and discarding everything else.

 

[Banditotron]

Population density. These proverbial city slickers, fauci included, don't seem to realize that places like Texas aren't comprised entirely of shoulder to shoulder commutes and dick to ass workplaces. The biggest concern in any epidemiological matter is population density, bar none. Masks can only help when relevant.

 

[Plank]

Masks are useless except as a placebo for overly-skittsh people and businesses who don't want to lose the next 5 years of profits in endless litigation over the hospital bills of everyone who shopped there in 2020.

And also for what ever cunt in the company who gets her information from nothing but cable news fear porn and her social media echo chamber and wants her company to be 'doing something' and 'taking covid seriously'.

 

[Vulva Gape]

Masks are useless except as a placebo for overly-skittsh people and businesses who don't want to lose the next 5 years of profits in endless litigation over the hospital bills of everyone who shopped there in 2020.

Well I agree that wearing masks outside is retarded and mask Karens can fuck off but in a non-ventilated indoor room, masks actually prevent transmission. Why do you think surgeons wear them?

I think a lot of people wear them wrong though, and if that actually translates into less deaths and cases is contentious. I see it as a minor inconvenience that is likely to help.

 

[TFT-A9]

Well I agree that wearing masks outside is retarded and mask Karens can fuck off but in a non-ventilated indoor room, masks actually prevent transmission. Why do you think surgeons wear them?

I think a lot of people wear them wrong though, and if that actually translates into less deaths and cases is contentious. I see it as a minor inconvenience that is likely to help.

"Likely" is not the same as "is"

If people cannot or will not wear them correctly, it offers no tangible benefit beyond being a fucking talisman

If masks are helpful, whence cometh the plague in Texas and Florida

 

[Vulva Gape]

If masks are helpful, whence cometh the plague in Texas and Florida

There's a lot of variables here. Like people said, population density is a big one. Living in crowded San Francisco is going to have different transmission than bumfuck Texas, and stuff like testing varies state by state. We don't have a perfect "control" group for masks because each state has different demographics, strains, etc, and lots of variables that make these comparisons invalid.

East asian countries that adopted masks quickly and well have done extremely well during the pandemic.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE]

Once again, Trump was right.

 

[TFT-A9]

There's a lot of variables here. Like people said, population density is a big one. Living in crowded San Francisco is going to have different transmission than bumfuck Texas, and stuff like testing varies state by state. We don't have a perfect "control" group for masks because each state has different demographics, strains, etc, and lots of variables that make these comparisons invalid.

East asian countries that adopted masks quickly and well have done extremely well during the pandemic.

If you're expecting the entirety of the United States to start behaving like east Asia man have I got news for you

 

[TowinKarz]

"Likely" is not the same as "is"

If people cannot or will not wear them correctly, it offers no tangible benefit beyond being a fucking talisman

If masks are helpful, whence cometh the plague in Texas and Florida

Cheap Chinese-sourced masks, combined with people ineffectively using them, on top of the fact even perfect usage wouldn't have made much of a dent due to inconsistant public rules across varying cites/states combined to mean they did nothing in the final equation except allow people to virtue signal for having worn the most and claim every good thing was directly down to them wearing one while every bad thing was down to someone halfway across the state not.

Why do you think surgeons wear them?

And when surgeons are done with them, I'll bet they go in infectious waste bins and head for the incinerator.

I step over used masks in the street every day that people have just thrown away when an ear loop breaks.... to cook in the sun or swim in fetid pothole water, probably cultivating more germs than it ever stopped in the process. These things are gonna stuff landfills and wash up on beaches for years to come. For very little practical gain.

$50 says some summer vacation towns get closed down 3-5 years from now because a single mask that's been floating in the Atlantic since March, 2020, washes up and the whole place gets shut down by EPA order for "fear of another outbreak"

 

[TFT-A9]

Cheap Chinese-sourced masks, combined with people ineffectively using them, on top of the fact even perfect usage wouldn't have made much of a dent all combines to mean they did nothing in the final equation except allow people to virtue signal for having worn the most.

And when surgeons are done with them, I'll bet they go in infectious waste bins and head for the incinerator.

I step over used masks in the street every day that people have just thrown away when an ear loop breaks.... to cook in the sun or swim in fetid pothole water, probably cultivating more germs than it ever stopped in the process.

The mask litter lately has been atrocious and pervasive. Fuck the Chinkin Pox, I'm sick of having to police the fucking things off my lawn every time a stiff breeze kicks up and blows them in from the streets and sidewalks.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Almost a year ago there were data scientists posting comparisons of cities or areas where one had idiotic mask mandates right next to ones that didn't and the infection/death rates were essentially identical. That data was actively ignored or worse.

This fuckwit Fauci isn't being faced with some anomaly that can't be explained.

He knows they do nothing. But once Trump was resisting wearing the silly and pointless masks it became locked into the all so tiresome TDS 'if Trump is against it, it must be pushed for without exception'. And add in some 'yes the masks do nothing, but it helps the plebs to take this (nothingburger of a) virus seriously. It is for their own good since they are too stupid to manage without our guidance.

Pretty much any graph comparing places with masks and without mask shows similar curves, and almost universally the harder an era locked down, the worse their numbers got. I posted tons of links in the Happening thread last year, I could probably dig them up. Seriously, the Farms has one of the best repositories of actual real information on COVID on the internet, if you're willing to dig through it.

Well I agree that wearing masks outside is retarded and mask Karens can fuck off but in a non-ventilated indoor room, masks actually prevent transmission. Why do you think surgeons wear them?

I think a lot of people wear them wrong though, and if that actually translates into less deaths and cases is contentious. I see it as a minor inconvenience that is likely to help.

Surgeons wear masks to prevent the transfer of blood-borne pathogens from the person they're performing surgery on to themselves from fluid spatter. There's a peer-reviewed study that showed no difference in post-surgery infection rate between masked and non-masked surgeon. Same with masks and Influenza. Unless your wearing a properly fitted N95 or better, the virus particles and what have you are just going to be redirected to the gaps between the mask and your face. This is basic physics and how gases work. Also, just in case you haven't figured it out, Asians wear masks out of politeness, not because they're effective. They still get and pass colds and flus at the same rate everyone else does.

Masks don't do shit, but they make you feel like you're doing shit and give you an excuse not to wash your filthy hands or do the things that would actual help. Because feeling like we're doing something is more important than actually doing something. Because most people are idiotic, virtue signaling bootlickers who have to shove their fingers in their ears so they can imagine they're right instead of doing research that would show them to have been wrong. Their egos can't take the hit. That's why they wear masks when they're alone in cars and screech like howler monkeys when given real research that shows they're wrong.