<div dir="ltr">I don't know that you can necessarily assume it was all due to masks (and no, I'm not an anti-masker). I live in CT and work in NYC (or did) so I've seen what was actually done first hand. Things started locking down in NYC around March 10. I know that because I went to a concert at MSG (with some trepidation) the night of the 10th, and everyone was still out in force. On the 11th, the day after, they started cancelling major events/large gatherings, and quickly moved to full lockdown. CT and NJ followed suit and began working together with NY to coordinate policy.<div><br></div><div>It was a very long time after that before phase I reopening in CT/NJ and even longer in NYC. In my experience, people here took the lockdown seriously (with some grumblings). For example, I live near I-95 which is the main artery here. It is normally a nightmare at rush hour and bad on weekends. It was almost empty for months outside of the usual tractor trailers. Anyone who could switched to Peapod for groceries and stopped going out anywhere around here.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't doubt that masks helped, but I think a large part of the success was people took it seriously and stayed home.</div><div><br></div><div>CT has also had zero deaths lately and an extremely low transmission rate. It is almost stopped spreading here.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:41 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"> But there is some good news, yesterday for the first time since March New York City did not have a single death from the virus. john</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">Is this rather definitive evidence that masks work? Nothing else has been done, I assume. bill w</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 6:37 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Some statistics: Canada had 321 new cases of COVID-19 last Friday, the USA had 68,421. In Florida alone 15,300 people got sick from the virus on Saturday, that's 12 times more new cases than South Korea and Australia combined, and both countries have a larger population than Florida. But there is some good news, yesterday for the first time since March New York City did not have a single death from the virus. I also found this chart interesting:</font></div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1282656106762952705" target="_blank">per capita death rates in the US 10x those in Europe and ours are rising, while theirs are falling</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><br></div></div>
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