The Okanogan County Snitch List – Inslee’s Informant Herd

Hi Bruce,
I don't know which person you are on the list, but this is public transparency data obtained from the state. This data is complete and no one will be removed from it.

If, in the future, you would like to NOT appear on such lists, then please do not report local businesses to the state.

Psoare, thanks for your comments.

>IN A SETTING WHERE MASKS WERE UNCOMMON

But it's pretty apparent by this one that you don't understand how or why that observational study is first of all, a scientific study.

>The Cochrane Reviews study where the authors' conclusions were...

Yes, and now you also know the scientific issues with the studies that were previously cited by OKPROUD. This is because this is biological science, attempting a control group, on humans, in a free country, that respects medical ethics, etc. Now go back to that 40 year old English RCT. Do you understand just a little better what it did and WHY it's important?


>The "liberty loving" self-proclaimed patriots that are worsening and prolonging this pandemic, that are in fact helping to deepen this tragic event and push us into ever deepening economic peril.

"Worsening AND prolonging"? It can't be both. In fact, OKPROUD was saying there that the Governor's policies, including mask mandates, were to "slow the spread", and indeed that was the initial justification for them earlier last year. If you slow the spread, then you prolong the entire process of people being infected with the virus before sufficient numbers have immunity to it so the spread is not increasing. So it certainly can't be the non-maskers that are prolonging this pandemic. The non-maskers would absolutely like to open everything up and return to normal... but it's the one-size-fits-all mandates and restrictions by the Governor that are pushing us all into ever-deepening economic peril.

I'm old enough to remember back to spring of last year, when everyone that didn't wear masks was supposed to be long dead by now. In fact, if "magic masks" are truly such a shield and protection, then by now - after a full year - everyone who hasn't habitually worn a mask has already long-gotten the virus and recovered. They're all pretty much immune by this point. Now we're just waiting on all you maskers as you SLOOOOOWWWWLLY but inevitably get it and pass it on amongst yourselves. So hurry it up, we have small businesses that need to open and finances to rebuild. Take your mask off and breathe deep.

OKVALLEYPROUD,
>Masks and distancing strongly effect risk of transmission. This is a fact.

Well, mask studies for the past 40 years have found that they don't do anything positive for source control and may even be harmful. Isn't it weird that suddenly halfway into 2020 everything we knew about the effectiveness of masks suddenly reversed - with no time to actually do any real science on the subject - and now we can just ignore everything that came before, and even certain ones that came after?

Your "strongly [a]ffect" opinion is straight up false. The seminal study on “source control” for masks is Neil Orr’s from 1981 ; it stands uncontroverted despite 40 years of attempts. This was a random controlled trial in Operating Rooms where everyone involved was a trained professional. There is no better evidence available than the removal of confounding factors such as compliance with wearing and procedural factors. In addition Cochrane Review, arguably the best medical minds in the world when it comes to meta-reviews , the highest form of evidence available, found weak to no evidence of efficacy for masks. What’s worse is that they found weak to no evidence even when the mask in question was an N95 and the wearer was a medical worker.

Then there’s the Danish mask study specific to Covid-19 which multiple medical journals tried to suppress. Annals finally published it, trying to gloss over the results. The results were damning; there was no statistically significant improvement in outcomes. Even worse, when the researchers applied retrospective analysis to limit the examination to only those who were allegedly “highly compliant” with protocol the relative risk ratio got worse rather than better, strongly implying that mask use might be harmful rather than protective.

My cites here are all RCT's or meta reviews, which provide high bars for scientific evidence - and actual science being done. Your linked paper appears to be a "narrative review" of certain cherry-picked papers that support the author's foregone conclusions. And the study that you cited is a type of observational study that provides a lesser standard of scientific evidence - and the general rule in any scientific field is that observational studies can never prove anything, but they can disprove your hypothesis.

Then there's the obvious question: if masks worked near as well as you say, then why are we still in this now fully a year afterwards?

>Thank you for responding, though, and providing your rationale. I still don't agree with you, however. This article should be removed.

That's fine, and we can certainly disagree. But the article won't be removed.

>I have no connection or affiliation with Governor Inslee, and I don't agree with every decision he has made. However, I see the overall process of introducing policies intended to slow the spread of a virus (that for some people, is deadly) as a harsh necessity.

There were many deaths caused by deadly viruses present with us pre-2020 with influenza and ILI. Why didn't you see this "harsh necessity" in 2018, which was a higher flu death year, or any year previous? Why do you only worry about people dying in 2020, and not the many decades previous?