Facts Are Facts
By: Josh Marshall (TPM)
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine looked at the current COVID outbreak in Tennessee and broke the hospitalization numbers down by the counties patients were coming from and whether those counties had masking mandates.
Not wearing a mask is
equivalent to shouting
"I don't care if everyone dies!"
BIDEN 2020
The results are stark.
The growth in hospitalizations is greatest in counties without masking requirements. Indeed, the inverse relationship between masking and hospitalization lines up across the spectrum from areas with little masking to those where mandates are widespread. You can see the discussion of the study here .
But this chart tells the story pretty clearly.
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This is probably the simplest demonstration I've seen. It is quite impossible to look at it and not understand.