How to Save 40,000 Lives
By Shlomo Maital
OK – I am a very broken record. But I simply can’t get my mind around this one.
The Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation, University of Washington, is perhaps one of the highest regarded credible sources of data and projections, related to the pandemic.
They have just completed a comprehensive study of data, regarding the impact of wearing facial masks. They not only read all the many studies – they re-analyzed the actual raw data.
Here are the results, just published.
Projected deaths from COVID-19 Under Three Scenarios, as of November 1: United States
Total Deaths Daily Deaths
- Easing, Opening 241,000 1,341
- Current Mix: Closed/Open 224,546 815
- Universal masks worn (95%) 183,242 273
How can the leader of the richest nation in the world live with himself, knowing that his public scorn of masks, and politicization of mask-wearing as an invasion of freedom (the freedom to die and to kill), will potentially kill 40,000 people – the total number of people who die in traffic deaths every year in the United States? Run the numbers: Easing and opening, return to schools, as the Administration wishes, versus universal mask wearing (and that, by the way, refers to ordinary cloth masks) kills 58,000 unnecessarily — and the current open/closed mix? 224,546 minus 183,242 equals over 40,000 superfluous deaths.
The IHME study shows conclusively that wearing a simple cloth mask, if everyone does, reduces the spread of COVID19 by 30%. That is a really big number. It could be the difference between an R0 number that creates a huge new wave, and an R0 number that gradually extinguishes the virus.
POTUS. A one-man death squad, aided by some Neanderthal southern governors.
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