it basically didn't control for ANY factors, you have no idea how many people were masking BEFORE the mandates, you have no idea if the counties involved ramped up testing, how they enforced their mandates, or what other covid measures they took in addition to this
sorry, you don't get to pull a situation with 1000's of contributing factors and make a claim that one of them is to blame. that's not science
The question here is the efficacy of mandates, not voluntary measures that people choose to take. Everyone is fine with someone deciding to wear a face mask. Any liberty-loving person wouldn't give a damn. The issue arises in whether making it illegal not to wear one has any significant efficacy, which the CDC admits doesn't. As for the other measures, their co-presence only casts further doubt on the causality of mask mandates in contributing to the already-insignificant change in numbers.
Study: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm
so basically NOT science, then
it basically didn't control for ANY factors, you have no idea how many people were masking BEFORE the mandates, you have no idea if the counties involved ramped up testing, how they enforced their mandates, or what other covid measures they took in addition to this
sorry, you don't get to pull a situation with 1000's of contributing factors and make a claim that one of them is to blame. that's not science
The question here is the efficacy of mandates, not voluntary measures that people choose to take. Everyone is fine with someone deciding to wear a face mask. Any liberty-loving person wouldn't give a damn. The issue arises in whether making it illegal not to wear one has any significant efficacy, which the CDC admits doesn't. As for the other measures, their co-presence only casts further doubt on the causality of mask mandates in contributing to the already-insignificant change in numbers.
that's not what they said
Per the report:
"Daily case and death growth rates before implementation of mask mandates were not statistically different from the reference period."
The "reference period" being "March 1–December 31, 2020 (when) state-issued mask mandates applied in 2,313 (73.6%) of the 3,142 U.S. counties."
Please learn to rewd beyond the propaganistic headlines.
...well, it's the CDC, so...