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Do We Need Mask Mandates?

Joe Biden has counted on face masks to control the Covid-19 pandemic. On his first day in office, the president issued an executive order requiring masks on federal property and called for their widespread use for 100 days. More recently, the Centers for Disease Control has mandated masks on...
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Desert Hound said:
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Do We Need Mask Mandates?

Joe Biden has counted on face masks to control the Covid-19 pandemic. On his first day in office, the president issued an executive order requiring masks on federal property and called for their widespread use for 100 days. More recently, the Centers for Disease Control has mandated masks on...
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Connor Harris is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he focuses on infrastructure, transportation, and housing policy. His writing has appeared in publications such as City Journal, the New York Post, and the Harvard Political Review. Harris graduated from Harvard University in 2016 with a B.A. in mathematics and physics.

Your article‘s author is less qualified than I am. Think about that. You’re hunting around the internet and reposting things from someone less qualified than Dad4.
 
dad4 said:
Connor Harris is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he focuses on infrastructure, transportation, and housing policy. His writing has appeared in publications such as City Journal, the New York Post, and the Harvard Political Review. Harris graduated from Harvard University in 2016 with a B.A. in mathematics and physics.

Your article‘s author is less qualified than I am. Think about that. You’re hunting around the internet and reposting things from someone less qualified than Dad4.
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What did he miss? Is he qualified to provide the R-squared that you are still avoiding.
 
Bruddah IZ said:
What did he miss? Is he qualified to provide the R-squared that you are still avoiding.
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If you want to make a point about correlation coefficients, make it. Please do better than “Weather has a large correlation coefficient, therefore nothing else has any impact.”

So far, you seem to like to trash talk without bothering to chain two coherent thoughts together.
 
dad4 said:
If you want to make a point about correlation coefficients, make it. Please do better than “Weather has a large correlation coefficient, therefore nothing else has any impact.”

So far, you seem to like to trash talk without bothering to chain two coherent thoughts together.
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Ask him a question involving percentages. I'll make the popcorn.
 
Kicker4Life said:
LA county Unemployment hit a whopping 12% in January. CA EDD says the County lost 562,000 jobs in 2020. 143,000 more than first estimated.
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Not really surprising. Just anecdote, but if you drive down Ventura Blvd in the Val you see lots of shops closing (I know of a handful of restaurants, couple hair salons, a vet clinic, a few stores, a bike repair shop, 3 karate studios). Homeless situation has gotten more out of control with pop up encampments all over various points in the city and under freeway overpasses. Only places that seem to be thriving on Ventura seem to be the weed shops and liquor stores.
 
Grace T. said:
Not really surprising. Just anecdote, but if you drive down Ventura Blvd in the Val you see lots of shops closing (I know of a handful of restaurants, couple hair salons, a vet clinic, a few stores, a bike repair shop, 3 karate studios). Homeless situation has gotten more out of control with pop up encampments all over various points in the city and under freeway overpasses. Only places that seem to be thriving on Ventura seem to be the weed shops and liquor stores.
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A bike repair shop should be thriving during Covid.
 
kickingandscreaming said:
Florida's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is now 4.8 percent in January 2021, which is up just one and a half percent from a year ago. What the p-value on this?
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For n=1? P is not defined. If you want to do stats, you need more data points, like unemployment rates for Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.
 
dad4 said:
If you want to make a point about correlation coefficients, make it. Please do better than “Weather has a large correlation coefficient, therefore nothing else has any impact.”

So far, you seem to like to trash talk without bothering to chain two coherent thoughts together.
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I was thinking that very thing about the glorified garbage you've been posting.
 
dad4 said:
For n=1? P is not defined. If you want to do stats, you need more data points, like unemployment rates for Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.
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Australia's unemployment rate topped 8%. It's currently at 5.8%. So worse than Florida. The one thing you can say about it is that with the lockdowns ending, they are having a quick recovery.

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‘Surprisingly large’ fall in unemployment shows job market improving faster than expected

The national unemployment rate falls to 5.8 per cent, with economists hailing evidence that the labour market is improving much faster than most people expected
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Grace T. said:
Australia's unemployment rate topped 8%. It's currently at 5.8%. So worse than Florida. The one thing you can say about it is that with the lockdowns ending, they are having a quick recovery.

www.abc.net.au

‘Surprisingly large’ fall in unemployment shows job market improving faster than expected

The national unemployment rate falls to 5.8 per cent, with economists hailing evidence that the labour market is improving much faster than most people expected
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That points to a claim that, economically, you don't want to be in the middle. Half hearted attempts to contain the outbreak may be worse than either extreme. ( Fully open or full containment.)
 
dad4 said:
That points to a claim that, economically, you don't want to be in the middle. Half hearted attempts to contain the outbreak may be worse than either extreme. ( Fully open or full containment.)
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agree with this. Hawaii enacted very strict policies including indoor dining, a quarantine for travelers and outdoor restrictions. But they left the door and borders open if you quarantined or worked for the airlines. A few quarantine violations and an outbreak at a flight attendant training and it went south. Worst unemployment in the us, massive damage to their tourist industry where 1/5 businesses have closed and while their results are better than some places they still got the virus. As I’ve been telling you forever: it is an all or nothing proposition (not really nothing but certainly what you’d regard as nothing). La had the strictest measures outside of Hawaii in the us and still ended where it did economically and virus’s wise.
 
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