A shit ton of caveats We’re not done yet. Digby referenced on Friday a tweet thread critiquing the recent Cochrane study on masking that has the right wing huffing and puffing even louder, “Masks don’t work!” Brett Stephens in the New York Times brought eye-popping attention this week to Cochrane’s overstated findings by quoting multiple masks-don’t-work and make-no-difference statements. Then, buried down in paragraph 10, we find “the analysis does not prove that proper masks, properly worn, had no benefit at an individual level.” Whoa! What? Kelsey Piper at Vox points out in the meta-analysis that most of the “randomised controlled studies” among Cochrane’s 78 are not about Covid, were not performed during the Covid-19 pandemic (or other epidemics), and only two were “about Covid and masking in particular.” They are examining the effect of mask mandates on community-level spread, not individual protection, as Stephens thoughtfully dropped into paragraph 10.
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There’s a lot of back and forth going on over a new study that people say suggests masks are useless to stop the spread of an aerosol based virus. The NY Times, which has been a bastion of COVID mitigation skepticism, featured an op-ed by Brett Stephens that’s as misleading as what you can find on Breitbart any given day. Here’s Dr Tom Friedan: Masks have been an effective tool throughout the Covid pandemic, despite erroneous claims to the contrary. The widely cited Cochrane review on masks was poorly done and even more poorly communicated. Regrettably, researchers analyzed the wrong datasets, in the wrong way, and overstated their conclusions—leading to sweeping and inaccurate characterizations. Many nuances around mask type, setting, behavior, and policy are explained in this helpful piece by @dr_kkjetelina. http://bit.ly/3ErwuNN 3/ The CDC did an excellent review citing extensive evidence that masks are effective, from multiple studies.
And Marjorie Taylor Greene is on it Here’s something to read while you savor your Friday afternoon cocktail. You’d better be prepared to have another: Earlier this month, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican, addressed the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, whose purview runs from this small resort city up along the Washington state border. Before she spoke, a local pastor and onetime Idaho state representative named Tim Remington, wearing an American flag-themed tie, revved up the crowd: “If we put God back in Idaho, then God will always protect Idaho.” Greene’s remarks lasted nearly an hour, touching on a range of topics dear to her far-right fans: claims about the 2020 election being “stolen,” sympathy for those arrested for taking part in attacking the U.S. Capitol and her opposition to vaccine mandates.
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