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Where did you post stats?
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The anecdote you refer to. I be more specific below.
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I saw the anecdote about Miami, and that actually conforms to the virus' 2 week latency period and the 4th of July holiday weekend.
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See Miami's curve here:
https://www.google.ca/search?ei=XE1a...4dUDCAw&uact=5
Miami mandated masks indoors April 9th.
https://www.miamidade.gov/releases/2...2020-masks.asp
As you can see on the graph, cases were unchanged after the mask law. So masks didn't diminish the case count.
Then, with masks still mandated indoors, they mandated them outdoors July 2nd.
https://www.bizjournals.com/southflo...rd-county.html
So you would think that cases surly would go down especially after mandating them since April. But as you can see on the graph again they started going up mid-June (nothing to do with the July 4th weekend). They were already going up with masks mandated indoors. Cases shouldn't be going up but they are. Then masks were mandated July 2nd outdoors and they stayed high until the end of July.
If masks worked then cases should have gone down in April. But they stayed the same.
They definitely shouldn't have gone up the way they did in June.
Every country, state or area has similar curves regardless of how hard you lock down or wear masks. Just look at Peru - highest deaths per capita with an insane and inhumane lock down and mask mandate vs other areas with no masks, lighter lock downs and less cases and deaths.
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Same thing with Hawaii, an uptick in June, then the start of a major surge in late July. However, despite a population of 1.416 million they've only had 10,097 total cases so far and 90 deaths - well below the national average, per capita.
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Yes they did okay. But why did cases spike if they were wearing masks? They should have at least gone down a little.
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Japan used very little testing, and had a vested interest to suppress reported cases anyway, that their historical numbers are all but meaningless. That said, with a population of 126.5 million, 73,221 cases, and 1,406 deaths, they have a much higher per capita infection ratio than the US. Possibly due to being told they were doing such a great job that people became careless.
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This is speculation. And your math is wrong. The USA has 6.8 million cases reported. Japan at 73k ... so their cases per capita is much lower.
But still they were all wearing masks and still had a spike of cases in July. If masks worked that should not happen.
If masks worked we should be able to measure it.
https://www.google.ca/search?ei=_09a...UDCAw&ua ct=5
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Anyhoo, plenty of actual scientific evidence to support the efficacy of masks:
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And plenty against. I could cite a page full.