'At the time of the mask mandate, COVID-19 case rates in

Posted on: September 21, 2021 at 10:27:18 CT

mask counties were 3 times higher than in no mask counties (15 cases per 100 000 population vs 5 cases per 100 000 population). These trends reversed, and by October 26 cases were 2.1 times higher in no mask counties'

Well, duh.

That type of pattern is what we observed in countries around the world irrespective of mask mandates.

Sweden is one example. They didn't do the lockdowns and the more draconian measures implemented by their neighbors and their cases, hospitalizations and deaths per million were higher than their neighbors... for awhile.

Of course since more people were infected, they had a higher rate of people with natural immunity and then those ratios of cases, hospitalizations and deaths reversed relative to their neighbors.

I think we're seeing the same thing here. Some people assert that Kansans are actually human. If so, that could well explain the results they got.

Counties with very high infection rates (3X the average of their neighbors who didn't institute mask mandates at the time) mandated masks. All of those cases, hospitalizations and deaths were signs of the much higher rate people who had been infected in those counties. If the W.H.O. IFR study is true then for every death attributed to Covid 435 people had been infected. The 434 who survived now had natural immunity.

So the counties with the highest rates of cases instituted mask mandates as a reaction, but nature was already working its wonders and those counties now had 3X the number of citizens with natural immunity. It is hardly a feather in their cap that after they belatedly instituted those mask mandates their new infection rates came down and their neighbors had 2X the number of cases.