I could compare CA to low density states in the north of the US. Sound fair?
Perhaps MT, ND, SD, MN, AK, WI, and MI.
I won't be mean and saddle you with solid blue states like WA and ME. They'd ruin your average.
Cherry picking again.
And you claim to be a math guy.
So many variables not accounted for.
Health of population, demographics, density, type of climate, etc.
It is why there are so many variations between the states and WITHIN the states.
It is why with in the EU which has a smaller area you see differences between countries who had similar POINTLESS mask rules and lockdowns.
Masks don't work. If they did you would see lots of studies showing this to be the fact. CDC studied it and came to the conclusion pre covid they are ineffective. WHO in 2019 said the same thing. Only thing that changed was the politics. You are still stuck talking about the Bangladesh study which isn't really conclusive one way or the other. By now with hundreds of millions of people using or who have used masks in countless countries...if they really made a difference there would be a ton of well regarded studies showing it. The fact that there are not any tells you all you need to know.
Lockdowns don't work because people have to go out and work, etc. Human nature comes into play as well.
It is an amazing thing to watch you cling to zero covid. Pretending that if we had just done this we would have saved X amount of people.
And then your latest with N95s (yes I know you have been wearing them for some time). You claim and others that THIS is the solution.
IT isn't either. They are not designed to be worn for any long period of time. They need to be fitted properly. Nobody is doing that. Those reasons alone tell you that they wont be the solution. That is called what happens in the real world. You are looking at the label and thinking they should stop 95% of everything therefore in the world at large it will reduce transmission by 95%. It won't because of human nature, their actual design, the need to be properly fitted, etc.