Buffalo_Gal

It is up today:

That was last night. 🙂

That is correct. Many who did a #walkaway have said, "I didn't leave my party, my party left me."

I think you are in for a surprise if you expect enlightened discussion here once the exodus is complete. It is a shame. It may have been dysfunctional and combative at times, but it was interesting and informative.

Guy cannot even check a twitter account for a new tweet or time-stamp he is so eager to promote #fakenews.

I think you misread (or misunderstood) his post. He is not pleased with the board Karens.

No, it is not paid: https://parler.com/

I know you have not appreciated DR's contributions. That is a shame as he has sources and contacts the rest of us can only dream about. His being banned will result in an enormous loss of quality information being posted in this community.

Mollie Hemingway has a few threads on people gathering to show Trump support today:

I do not feel they owe an explanation either. As you say, it is a private site. However, it is becoming more and more difficult to identify what type of posting earns a ban.

Maybe not directly. 🤷‍♂️

Math is racist? </snip> The Mathematical Association of America released a statement Friday claiming both that mathematicians should engage in “uncomfortable conversations” about race, and that policies of from the Trump administration, like the lack of a mask mandate in the United States, are somehow an affront to mathematics. The group concludes with a call for a “pursuit of justice” within math. </snip>

This is frighteningly accurate:

Truth: LOL Yup:

Over in the COVID thread I just posted a "got it with mask" article, studies that masks do not work, etc. I found one that stated people with pulmonary issues might benefit from masks, but no one else. Last two pages. "Trump has mismanaged this Pandemic since it's reached our shores and now it's just caught up with him." Please, do tell (even with the benefit of hindsight) what you would have done differently. And, that hindsight is giving you a real edge to explain your plan because with what was little was known of this virus back in January, February, and March (heck, even April), it was difficult for anyone to make great decisions. Another reason to be pissed at China. If they had shared what they knew (instead of lying and hiding it), it may have gone far differently for the world.

The 2015 study on cloth masks. Transmission with masks. 2017 study: </snip> This systematic review and meta-analysis quantified the protective effect of facemasks and respirators against respiratory infections among healthcare workers. Compared to masks, N95 respirators conferred superior protection against CRI (RR = 0.47; 95% CI: 0.36–0.62) and laboratory-confirmed bacterial (RR = 0.46; 95% CI: 0.34–0.62), **but not viral infections or ILI**. Disposable, cotton, or paper masks are not recommended. The confirmed effectiveness of medical masks is crucially important for lower-resource and emergency settings lacking access to N95 respirators. In such cases, single-use medical masks are preferable to cloth masks, for which there is no evidence of protection and which might facilitate transmission of pathogens when used repeatedly without adequate sterilization. </snip>

From the design paper: In the community, the use of face masks is increasing world-wide, but documentation for the efficacy of this remedy is lacking. This trial investigates whether the use of face masks in the community will reduce wearers' risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. I am not sure if the premise is "do masks work" or "do masks work for everyday schumps" (where the correct wearing and constant face touching may factor in). They used surgical masks, for the study. This was interesting: Hospital mask policy.

Ok, so apparently the study is not yet out: Those last two responses were in responses to this:

When snooping through this thread for some links for @HappyDays I came across this from July. I cannot find the study which was to be released in August. As it is now October, I would hope it would have been released. Has anyone seen/read it?

And I have over 10K posts down here. I genuinely do not have time to sort through my posts because you do not have time to sort through a thread. Note: if I could just search masks, I would. Unfortunately, that thread is over 6 months old, and "masks" give a lot of returns.

It is not an unwillingness... go to the correct thread and start reading. The links are there. 🙂