Texas mask policy has not led to apocalypse

 Jazz Shaw:

When Texas Governor Greg Abbott ended his state’s mask mandate on March 10, he was accused of “Neanderthal thinking.” But what’s happened since then? Over at National Review, Jim Geraghty declares that he’s still waiting for the Maskless Texan Apocolypse. Much like most of the pandemic-related headlines these days, everything ends up being boiled down to a numbers game. Sadly, when you get to cherry-pick which numbers to highlight, you can make the weekly COVID figures say almost anything you want. But at least in the initial weeks after Texas ended the mandate, the Four Horsemen are still stubbornly refusing to appear.

The day before the mask mandate ended, March 9, Texas had 5,119 new cases of COVID-19, and the seven-day average for new cases was 3,971. On that day, the state had 126,404 active cases of COVID-19. As of March 9, the seven-day average for new deaths was 104.

As of yesterday, the seven-day average for new cases in the state of Texas is 3,010. As of yesterday, Texas had 109,197 active cases of COVID-19, and the seven-day average for new deaths in the state of Texas is 114.

(While many Democrats love to contend that the Lone Star State and its governor, Greg Abbott, have been particularly reckless in their quarantine restrictions and pandemic response, Texas ranks right around the middle: 24th in the country in cases per million residents and deaths per million residents.)

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Masks appear to be overrated in dealing with the pandemic.  I should note that some Texas businesses are still requiring the masks. 

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