Maximum Carnage Week Game Thread

46XiJCAB said:

MikeDamone said:

WestlinnDuck said:

If only Washington and Oregon had passed massive tax hikes to fully fund education. Oh, that's right, they did. And for some reason, with all that money, actual education has gotten worse. Go figure.

hardhat said:

UW_Doog_Bot said:

hardhat said:

https://twitter.com/ajlamesa/status/1518976335644831746?s=20&t=JdgeqaIGNMutfc_rVNzstg

https://twitter.com/ajlamesa/status/1518980738808303617?s=20&t=JdgeqaIGNMutfc_rVNzstg

And most of the kids I saw walking to school today had masks on. Some of them walking alone. In Seattle, we follow the science. FUCK THE KIDS.

Been saying this since early on. Glad we didn't compromise my kids education for safety theater.

The wife is seeing an average developmental delay of 1-2 yrs with kids at her work.

At the local public school, kids are still required to wear masks. The pledge of allegiance is replaced with a land acknowledgement statement. School elections are banned because inclusion and equity. Advanced math is gone because equity. The teacher that ran the school musical is gone, because equity. The parents tried to raise money to keep her, but the school auction is also gone because equity. That's why my kids go to catholic school now.

Not only that, schools are back to begging taxpayers to pass levies. Levies were supposed to be capped at $1.50. I don’t think that cap lasted even a year. The whole thing was to equal rich and poor districts. As usual, everything the touch turns to shit.

What did it cost to "educate" students during the entire length of the lockdowns? Our district is begging right now. All of the usual heartstring stuff about cutting this program and that program. WTH, this district should be swimming in $$$$. Every time I turn around they're tearing a school down and building a Taj Mahal in it's place. Or a brand new one like the GS that looks like a corporate HQ.

WestlinnDuck said:

And the dems say "follow the science". Voting for any dem is self-flagellation.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/04/more-evidence-that-masks-dont-work.php

MORE EVIDENCE THAT MASKS DON’T WORK
With airports and airplanes now liberated, masks are becoming a rarity. That is a good thing, as there was never any substantial evidence that masks work. This study of 35 European countries during the period from October 1 2020 to March 31, 2021, when the second covid wave passed through that continent, could put the last nail in the mask coffin.

The study plotted the percentage of mask compliance in each country against covid cases and deaths. The author evidently expected to demonstrate the utility of masks, but was disappointed:

The aim of this short study was to analyse the correlation between mask usage against morbidity and mortality rates in the 2020-2021 winter in Europe. Data from 35 European countries on morbidity, mortality, and mask usage during a six-month period were analysed and crossed. Mask usage was more homogeneous in Eastern Europe than in Western European countries. Spearman’s correlation coefficients between mask usage and COVID-19 outcomes were either null or positive, depending on the subgroup of countries and type of outcome (cases or deaths). Positive correlations were stronger in Western than in Eastern European countries. These findings indicate that countries with high levels of mask compliance did not perform better than those with low mask usage.

Actually, it suggests that countries with more mask compliance did worse. A positive correlation means that more masks corresponded to more deaths.

Surprisingly, weak positive correlations were observed when mask compliance was plotted against morbidity (cases/million) or mortality (deaths/million) in each country (Figure 3).

I.e., more masks = more cases and more deaths. This is the study’s conclusion:

While no cause-effect conclusions could be inferred from this observational analysis, the lack of negative correlations between mask usage and COVID-19 cases and deaths suggest that the widespread use of masks at a time when an effective intervention was most needed, i.e., during the strong 2020-2021 autumn-winter peak, was not able to reduce COVID-19 transmission. Moreover, the moderate positive correlation between mask usage and deaths in Western Europe also suggests that the universal use of masks may have had harmful unintended consequences.

I credit the study’s author for his honesty.