Jurisdictions with mask mandates averaged 15.8 cases per day for every 100,000 residents, compared to 21.7 in unmasked communities Mask mandates saved lives and prevented COVID-19 infections in Missouri’s biggest cities during the worst part of the delta variant wave, an analysis by the state Department of Health and Senior Services shows. But the analysis, conducted at the request of Gov. Mike Parson’s office in early November, was never made public and was only obtained by The Missouri Independent and the Documenting COVID-19 project after a Sunshine Law request to the department. https://missouriindependent.com/202...mandates-work-but-didnt-make-findings-public/ So they continued to push policies they knew were going to risk lives. Masks are such a minor inconvenience. It’s so odd republicans will let people die than experience a minor annoyance like a mask.
