Why consider the entire record?
Because it's more favorable to his argument.
Yep. Not just selected times, but the entire pandemic. How did mask mandates affect infection rates? Here it is:
States infection rates per 100,000 residents:
Hawaii 20,377 mask mandate
Vermont 28,589 mask mandate
Maine 36186 mask mandate
Oregon 38,340 mask mandate
Washington 46,478 mask mandate
New Hampshire 59,388 mask mandate
D.C. 61,471 mask mandate
Maryland 66,280 mask mandate
Michigan 69,776 mask mandate
Virginia 70,994 mask mandate
West Virginia 77,060 mask mandate
Pennsylvania 77,615 mask mandate
Colorado 78,304 mask mandate
Alaska 80642
no mask mandate
Connecticut 84,051 mask mandate
North Carolina 85, 631 mask mandate
Ohio 85,652 mask mandate
Massachusetts 89,654 mask mandate
Minnesota 89, 789 mask mandate
New Mexico 90,562 mask mandate
California 92,270 mask mandate
Missouri 93,016
no mask mandate
Florida 93,642
county mask mandates
Kentucky 94,260 mask mandate
New York 94,719 mask mandate
Louisiana 94,878 mask mandate
Delaware 94,919 mask mandate
Wyoming 96,292 no mask mandate
Montana 96,463 no mask mandate
Illinois 96520 mask mandate
Nevada 97,831 mask mandate
New Jersey 97,840 mask mandate
Wisconsin 98,373 mask mandate
Georgia 98,554
no mask mandate
Idaho 99,470 no mask mandate
Indiana 100,772 mask mandate
Mississippi 101,787
No mask mandate
Kansas 103,603 mask mandate
Alabama 104,377 mask mandate
South Carolina 105,308 no mask mandate
Texas 106,364 no mask mandate
Nebraska 106,788 no mask mandate
Arkansas 108,123 mask mandate
Oklahoma 110,046 no mask mandate
Arizona 114,957 no mask mandate
Tennessee 117,385 no mask mandate
Iowa 118,533 no mask mandate
Utah 119, 087 mask mandate
Rhode Island 126,528 mask mandate
South Dakota 131,092 no mask mandate
North Dakota 133,455 no mask mandate
Notice where the red (no mask) states cluster.
Seven of the ten states with the highest infection rates have no mask mandates.
Twenty of the twenty-one states with the lowest infection rates have mask mandates.
Only one state without a mask mandate has an infection rate below the national average.
Alaska, at fourteenth lowest, is the state with the lowest infection rate that lacks a mask mandate
He thinks I'm cherry-picking data, but I'm not. My argument all along has been that masks really haven't made a correlated impact, much less shown any causation.
See above. You'd have to be pretty resistant to reality to deny it.
Sometimes the states that have mask mandates fare better, sometimes worse.
As you learned,
Seven of the ten states with the highest infection rates have no mask mandates.
Twenty of the twenty-one states with the lowest infection rates have mask mandates.
This is easily observable to anyone who can read.
But MASKS! ... because he says so.
Because the data show that states with mask mandates do better as a group than states that don't.
And yes, cherry-picking when particular states are doing better or worse then they have before, doesn't erase which states have lower infection rates.
No, infection rates are the measure of mask effectiveness. No point in denying it.
Yep. As you see, the data are very clear on this. Look at the difference between states with the highest infection rates and those with the lowest infection rates. Not one state in the thirteen states with lowest infection rates lacked a mask mandate.
You'd probably do better with fewer exclamation points, and more effort trying to find a plausible explanation for the difference in outcomes for states with and without mask mandates.
