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@KurtCouchman @mattyglesias In the GFC, it took over 3 years to recover GDP, 6 years for employment to recover and 8 for median household income to recover. We already passed those benchmarks years ago.

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@TxRdHdinAz @SamRoseAuthor @fem_mb @SallyJamesterf @Scienceofsport @ATCBS Stephen Miller is real and knowledgeable too

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@awb20774 @ericadyork When someone proposes a tariff, unless it’s in the form of a question, we cannot tweet about it.

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@blurrrgh @BackTo_1970 @ryniguez1 @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias They may not be. But still fine and adequate in lots of cases. And sufficient to claim it’s far from clear or obvious masks are useless.

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@blurrrgh @ryniguez1 @BackTo_1970 @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias Shall I provide a study showing masks are efficacious in reply; is that how it works?

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@blurrrgh @BackTo_1970 @ryniguez1 @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias That’s called guesswork. Maybe you’re right half the time, or maybe you’ve got bad judgement. But still ignoring what science may be telling you.

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@BackTo_1970 @blurrrgh @ryniguez1 @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias But any observant can look at things staying on the ground but have no clue gravity keeps them there unless science told them so. You’re assuming the mask conclusion without giving a substantive reason why
….except casual assumptions.

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@BackTo_1970 @ryniguez1 @blurrrgh @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias I know what you said. I replied to it after all. Should we ask the relatives of the dead whether they think natural immunity was superior to vaxx immunity?

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@blurrrgh @BackTo_1970 @ryniguez1 @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias Observational studies are used all over the place. They are fine.

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@Hold2LLC @blurrrgh @BackTo_1970 @ryniguez1 @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias That’s fine. I’m sure yours are everything you say they are. Nevertheless, there is enough here to show that not “clearly” masks were useless. I’m also happy to say in hindsight they were useless…if that’s what the science tells us now.

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@blurrrgh @BackTo_1970 @ryniguez1 @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias Well, here is a report finding the opposite conclusion:

https://t.co/kRFfhJrACu

With several studies cited and from the same period.

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@BackTo_1970 @blurrrgh @ryniguez1 @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias How did most people know it?

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@blurrrgh @BackTo_1970 @ryniguez1 @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias Your reference is from 2021 and was from a single substack post of a single study. “Clearly” is not accurate. It’s fine you can hate masks and even not believe they were useful (maybe not all that much research at the time). But that’s all layman’s guess work, not “clearly”

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@blurrrgh @BackTo_1970 @ryniguez1 @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias Did you know that at the time?

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@BackTo_1970 @ryniguez1 @blurrrgh @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias “Of course” says the layman.

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@BackTo_1970 @ryniguez1 @blurrrgh @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias It’s a virus, herd immunity is no match for a vaccine, it kills. Sure, the context you want is different. But it’s equally applicable here.

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@BackTo_1970 @ryniguez1 @blurrrgh @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias Polio. lol

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@blurrrgh @ryniguez1 @BackTo_1970 @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias Not really since several people had to follow up with him about it.

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@blurrrgh @ryniguez1 @BackTo_1970 @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias Presidents move onto other jobs too yet you don’t see that as an ongoing vacancy. If you pull funding or executive support from something, attrition will take its course.

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@blurrrgh @ryniguez1 @BackTo_1970 @PeterArcher37 @mattyglesias If something is “clearly” whatever yet he says he was being sarcastic goes to show it was never “clearly”.