A common scene at Los Angeles International Airport on December 22, 2020, amid a surge of confirmed cases of Chinese Communist pneumonia (COVID-19) in California, USA
The Communist Chinese virus (Wuhan pneumonia) pandemic has made wearing masks one of the main means of epidemic prevention in most countries. Yet a new study shows that the number of cases is higher in states with mandatory masking than in states without mask orders; the report concludes that mandatory mask orders appear to have instead facilitated the spread of the virus.
RationalGround.com is a grassroots group of data analysts, computer scientists and actuaries that aims to conduct an exchange of information on trends in the CCP virus epidemic. According to a report by the group, researchers examined 229 days of case data between May 1 and Dec. 15 to compare how the outbreak differed between states with and without mask orders.
In states with mask orders, there were 9,605,256 confirmed cases of CCLV, which equates to an average of 27 cases per 100,000 people per day. This compares to 5,781,716 cases in states that did not implement the executive order, including states that did not have a mask order in place at the time of the study, which translates to an average of 17 cases per 100,000 people per day.
In other words, the mask order has a poor record of prevention to date. An average of 10 more infections per day were reported in “masked” states than in “unmasked” states.
“The inverse correlation between ‘wearing a mask’ and ‘not wearing a mask’ is very significant.” Justin Hart, co-founder of RationalGround.com, said in a Dec. 20 tweet.
The 15 states referred to in the report that have not implemented statewide mask orders are Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Wyoming.
The analysts allowed the states involved a 14-day grace period from the time the mask order was implemented to begin counting cases against the efficacy of the masks in order to produce accurate results.
Proponents of the mask order may argue that the executive order was often implemented when cases were already spreading rapidly, so the outbreak was trending negatively in those areas (or times) where masks were mandatory, meaning cases were increasing. But “there is no evidence of a decrease in cases or even a better outcome after many weeks have passed.” Horowitz wrote.
RationalGround.com researcher Ian Miller found that three Florida counties – Manatee, Martin and Nassau – had their mask orders expire when their masks expired. -had fewer cases per capita after their mask orders expired than those counties that continued their mask orders.
Miller tweeted sarcastically on Dec. 20 that “the pro-mask side claims that protective masks are the single most important public health tool we have” and that masks “also provide protection for the wearer,” so the finding is “extremely confusing as to how this could happen.
According to Miller, the mask order has also failed to work in states such as California. There, masks were mandated long before cases began to spike.
“The simple reality is that there is no legitimate data to show that these regulations are working.” Horowitz concluded.
Some may question the study’s findings, arguing that population density “skews” the results. Horowitz noted that even when population density was taken into account, a study of Florida counties with mask orders did not find a correlation between mask orders and a decrease in cases.
Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, has come under intense fire from the mainstream media for refusing to implement a statewide mask order. However, the state’s counties that did not implement the mask order performed well in the study.
Of the state’s 67 counties, 22 implemented the executive order at some point during the study period.
When the mask order was in place in each county, there were 66,7239 cases, or an average of 23 cases per 100,000 people per day, and when the mask order was not in place in each county, there were 438,687 cases, or an average of 22 cases per 100,000 people per day.
In the state, “the top 12 most populous counties …… eight of them were implementing the mask order at some point during the study period, and four counties had never implemented the executive order countywide.” The four counties were Brevard, Lee, Polk and Volusia, Horowitz wrote.
“These eight counties had 24 cases per 100,000 people per day when the mask order was in effect. On the other hand, there were 17 cases per 100,000 people per day during the time when the mask order was not in place.” In the latter case, the mask order was never implemented in the four counties mentioned above. In the other eight counties, with the exception of Miami-Dade, the other seven counties had several weeks without mandatory mask wear.
He said there is no evidence that the mask order is linked to the spread of the CCA virus.
“If anything, the opposite is true.” Horowitz wrote, “And it certainly wasn’t for lack of compliance.”
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