A Colorado Kid Corona Compare
Not only are masks useless or harmful against aerosol viruses in general but here is strong data they are in schools as well
So @Dierenbach has struck again with an excellent thread on the uselessness of masks drawing on the controlled experiment taking place with the Denver area’s “Tri County Health Department” with the exit of Douglas county from it so they could remove mask and vaccine mandates. I can’t recommend his thread enough.
He includes this chart.
This is like so many that I have previously pointed out in for instance “Why Masking Pigpen Fails”. Masks are a bad joke.
But he also included a reference to this table that actually had comparative data across the unmasked Douglas school district and adjacent but masked Cherry Creek and Littleton.
Eyeballing it, it looks to be confirmatory of the previous chart as Karl points out but seeing there were 2 school age cohorts I decided to build a chart of it to be sure and see if there were any differences as I suspected between them. Easy enough to just download this data and put it in Excel, right? Umm, not so fast on that one — data download is disabled of course. Wouldn’t want inquiring minds to discover anything antithetical to the narrative…
So manual data entry it was then which resulted in this.
Oh my. Look at that.
You may have heard the saying “snot nosed kid”1? Not only does Douglas run a mostly lower cumulative case rate but this clearly shows that infections are higher in the youngest (elementary age is shown by solid lines) cohort (regardless of useless masking) pretty much as one would expect!
We also see what appears to be an inflection in slope up in December likely due to Omicron (Xi if you follow the actual Greek alphabet instead of relentlessly playing politics).
Does this confirm Karl’s general take about masking in general? Absolutely.
But it is also non-trivial and reasonably non-confounded evidence that masks are either no help or possibly even detrimental to slowing cases.
Never mind the developmental and social harms masks impose on not just the general population but especially on kid’s development and learning. How can our political leadership continue to impose these harms with a clear conscience?
I have pointed out before that pre-C19 estimates were that the US incurs 1 BILLION cold infections per year heavily/ multiply in the younger ages (kids often get multiple colds per year) to reach such a high figure in a US population of roughly 330 million. The general theory is that the younger you are the more colds you get and this data fully supports that. This also brings up the hidden fact that between 100-300 million (!) of those infections were estimated to be caused by the 4 pre-existing strains of cold causing corona viruses that were carefully not mentioned in the first wave of “novel corona virus” propaganda and even now are rarely mentioned. In this context the number of (not necessarily correctly measured) C19 infections is hardly a surprise if it is in fact out-competing the existing cold viruses as https://syndromictrends.com continues to show. (BTW, on the topic of “out-competing”, did you know that there is a research paper which estimated the R0 of the pre-existing cold corona viruses to potentially be as high as 8? Sound familiar?)