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Exploiting is hacking, quit being pedantic.

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Yes, and I appreciate the scientific method, but applying it with statistics such a singular market research sampling can be dubious because it requires assumptions that aren’t actually validated.

The more you learn, the more you realize we all have blindspots all overr the place. This result of the provided sample size statistics cannot be proven without iterations, which have not been done.

The politics of it are chess, while the statistics are just playing tic tac toe while discarding considerations of nuance with a wave of ‘but science’ hand.

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A fancy guess is still a guess.

892 out of 160,000,000+ is a small sample size.

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Sa is just the brah version of sup which is the bro version of whats up. Boom. Scrabbled.

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the distancing thing literally was made up out of nowhere during covid.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/harvard-experts-discuss-the-history-of-social-distancing/

But the practice of “maintaining a greater than usual physical distance” goes back to the 14th century, when ships arriving to Venice during an outbreak of the Black Death were forced to quarantine, or sit at anchor, for 40 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_distancing#History

Your mind seems trapped in a alternate reality of conspiracy, you should absolutely seek some therapy with a licensed mental health professional.

but when you guys pretend that the Mayor of LA wouldnt have gotten covid if she wore a mask

You are imagining a group of people working against you, and projecting your on religious-like belief against anyone not within your strict bubble of expectations of belief.

The Mayor of LA needs to wear a mask to reduce the chance of her spreading it further. Wearing a mask when infected is actually the most useful case for masking. You can be infected without knowing it, so wearing the mask to reduce the particle spread even if you are not symptomatic is absolutely a good thing to do. Wearing a mask when not infected, but around other people, is not and was never posited as a guaranteed protection from infection, but from either side of the equation, infected or not, you still end up filtering even some amount of inbound particles when you are breathing with a proper mask.

Arbitrarily claiming it doesn’t work or didn’t have any measurable difference, especially in the face of linked evidence by actual medical professionals showing it does and it did, demonstrates you are proselytizing belief built with actual misinformation.

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This isn’t discourse until someone starts proposing tenable solutions to actual problems.

What all do you do to organize politically in between 4 year Presidential cycles?

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You really don’t get it.

Masking and distancing were already well establsihed as early recommendations for flu pandemic strategies for decades prior to covid.

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