Study: Alaskans are highly compliant with mask recommendations

1. In my lifetime we’ve gone from rugged individualists to bleating sheep.

   We’ve also gone from people ready and willing to help each other to people meekly waiting for government to “fix it” for us.

   This is what immigration from California does to places.

   • Well said.

   • Roger that

   • Amen. Thin skinned sheep.

   • Yes, this headline is nothing to be proud of. It is cause for shame.

   • Yes, the headline is cause for shame not pride.

   • Obviously they didn’t call my house or any body i know. I would question whether their poll is an accurate sample of the population.

2. Their poll is incomplete, there is plenty of Alaskans not wearing nor following government recommendations. Those answering the poll questions are the ones they were able to reach. If they could had reached the other 80 percent, it would had changed the result. I for one was not included in the poll. There is a lot of people who aren’t wearing masks nor social distancing nor are places wiping down surfaces quickly after people touch its products and putting them down. Plus, all those kitchen crew How does the door dash customers be sure the kitchen crew isn’t really breathing all over their food? According to fearful people their delivered food is no more safe than dine-in! hahahahaha. These democrat shopkeepers if they really want to obey the government then they need to follow behind every customer spraying Lysol after each place their customers touched!
   Also, too everyone knows the masks are a joke even the democrats quietly agree with the republicans. its all one big joke. Its just the republicans are little more vocal about it! hahahahaha

3. The only reason I wear a mask is that I don’t want to cause trouble for employees in the establishments I frequent. A piece of cloth hanging over one’s mouth does nothing. Get professionally fitted for an N95 with the hood and gas method and you’ll see what I mean. To me, masks are nothing more than a modern day Burka to be worn by the masses.

   • You’re not entirely correct. Masks stop the droplets that contain the virus at least up into a point when they become saturated from humidity in your breath.

     • Masks MAY capture a spit droplet or two, but does NOTHING to prevent the spread of the MILLIONS of aerosolized virus-carrying particles which are 200 to 1,000 times smaller than the holes in a mask (if you can smell smoke through your mask, you know it does nothing to prevent viral transmission). Additionally, if you are not replacing your mask every ten minutes with a sterile mask, you are merely spreading bacteria and virus from every place you visited.

4. Masks are all but useless, except to signal meek and unthinking compliance to capricious governmental dictates,

   • Not according to the CDC comrade.

     • Yes they are, according to the medical consensus prior to March 2020, as well as according to many, many doctors and health care professionals even today, despite them being censored and outright persecuted for their statements by the power establishment.
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       Greg, why are you such a spineless lemming? Is it that you fear freedom and self-responsibility? Or is it due to a childlike naivete and gullibility in implicitly trusting those in positions of power? Or is it due to simply ignorance? Regardless of why, you are consistently here the voice of the establishment, and for that I condemn you, and all those like you. It is because of the meek and spineless complicity and obedience of people like you that our freedoms are being easily stripped away by sociopaths in power.

     • Masks are useless against the transmission of a viral respiratory infection found every scientific study prior to May of 2020, which is why we never wore face masks during the flu season, even the more deadly flu season of 2018 with over 80,000 (non-financially incentivized) deaths reported.

5. Have yet to see an explanation of the rise in China flu cases in spite of high mask-compliance.
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   Even though its almost certainly not cause and effect, in spite of appearance, following the science and the math clearly shows that mask wearing does absolutely nothing to mitigate the virus.

6. Broaden your looking about studies. University of Copenhagen study showed no difference in transmission rate from those who wore a mask and those who did not. Health officials will only provide the studies that fit their narrative.

   • So you’re saying if I have covid-19 and I’m not wearing a mask and I breathe on you, then you’re just as safe as if I was on the other side of a football field? I got you thanks for clarifying.

     • No, Steven said there is no difference in the transmission rate of a viral respiratory infection like covid-19 whether you are wearing a mask or not. He said nothing about being on the other side of football field.

7. Merry Christmas Suzanne!
   Thanks for all you do!

   So I went to Wasilla last week three times and stopped for food and gas atleast three times not to mention my port of call for business. At he restaurants and one gas station employees were wearing masks. Everywhere else not hardly at all. The part of the ride I enjoyed most was at no time did I pull up next to some Muppet wearing a mask while riding alone in their own vehicle! That next to folks riding their bikes on icy afternoons with masks, on has become my personal sanity question of the year!
   So Carrs has closed on end of each store and I asked why?, the answer was the City made them do it? (as one clerk told me) is the case. If the City wizards figured out Covid only travels West to East and by closing a door you will slow transmission, well I would like to see that memo.
   Rest easy people the vaccine is here! although the manufacturers do not claim to prevent or cure Covid 19 nor are they liable if you have an adverse reaction of any kind. Really, vaccine compaies are exempt from any kind of liability. Anyway, I got “permanently removed” from REDDIT ALaska for replying to a post that was touting masks. Evidently posting something that postulates that ” posting information or opinion that masks are not effective) (their words) is prime verbiage for permanent banishment without the offer of substantive dialog to confirm, deny, or debate.
   My patience wears thin with these costumes and I am left thinking on your article about babies and their visual accuity being damaged or erased by their wearing?
   Finis !:)

   • Wesley, I was banned from the online comments section of the Anchorage Daily Worker, er, News, for similarly posting comments merely questioning of the efficacy of mass public mask wearing in preventing respiratory disease transmission (hint: they are mostly worthless). Funny how the power establishment is suddenly so consumed with shutting down free speech and any questioning of their orthodoxy. It is only the weak, counterfactual or irrational argument that requires suppression in order to prevail.

     • Hell, I am banned from this ” Liberty Light Less than Conservative Rag ” too! Just the same , Suzanne take that!

     • Sounds about right for the current editorial board of the ADN.

8. DHSS only polled 406 of over 730,000 residents. .55%. Also, it did not list the areas where the results where taken. I think this is a highly inaccurate result based on the polling sample.

   • That’s .055 per cent.

9. The American voters are pretty intelligent. The problem is the fix was in before the election even started. A system wide cluster that spreads into the judges. Dems don’t care so long as their guy won. Even with ligitimate proof offered in court, appeals are turned down. Turns out they never wanted the swamp drained in the first place.

10. Just saw a chart yesterday from John Hopkins showing how masks exacerbate the virus making it more concentrated on the wearer. Masks do not work and are making the virus more prevalent. The number of cases drop without them! Time for Alaska to follow the foot steps of Florida, no masks! We will be better off without them.

    • Michael, I respect your personal opinion but I found nothing in regard to your comment about JHU. Will you please cite your source? Google JHU-Masks and you will see many reports from them about masks and their efficacy, requirements of anyone over the age of two to enter any of their facilities, and many articles that implore their usage.

      • Tom Nanook, please then explain the overwhelming medical consensus, PRIOR to March of this year, which held that mass mask wearing by the public was mostly worthless in preventing respiratory disease transmission.
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        One of the most disturbing aspects of this whole scamdemic, for me, was and has been the total cognitive dissonance of the population on this mask matter, with barely a peep raised (or allowed) when the power establishment, which includes the medical-industrial establishment, did a mass, sudden 180 degree turn on the matter of masks. It was right out of the book “1984” — “Oceania is at war with Eurasia …. Oceania is Eastasia …. Oceania has ALWAYS been at war with Eastasia!”

      • They make this stuff up. It has no merit.

        • You are merely making up that others “make this stuff up,” simply because it has no merit with YOU. While I didn’t personally see the John Hopkins article reference by Michael (though I have read MANY other reputable reports which corroborate these findings), I did read the JHU article published on November 22 by assistant program director of the Applied Economics master’s degree program, Genevieve Briand, who found Covid-19 has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States. The article was quickly removed.
          While there have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies showing masks do NOT work to prevent respiratory illnesses transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles (Denis G. Rancourt, PhD is a good source of info), perhaps you can provide the Randomized Controlled Trial with VERIFIED outcome demonstrating a measurable benefit to wearing a mask.

11. I respectfully disagree, Jefferson. The most learned organization in the world, the US military, immediately required masks in March for anyone over the age of two upon entry to any installation – a STRICT regulation that is required to this day. If it was a waste of time they would stop doing it immediately. EVERY dentist I have visited during my lifetime wears a mask as to not acquire or spread illness from/to their patients. These are anecdotal examples with literally thousands of examples of research touting mask efficacy Yes, there are some individual studies that do not. But a meta-analysis is very clear on the subject – masks stop the spread of viruses. A recent 2019 UT study published in JAMA even said that medical masks were as effective as an N-95 respirator at doing so. I hope you will show me a source from a reputable, peer-reviewed journal that explains your point Don’t like or want to wear a mask – I understand. However, they do their purpose very well.

    • Didn’t happen. As far as most learned organization…..LMAO.

12. Like most official China flu news, this crap seems meant to coerce Americans into believing their New Order must mean New Behavior.
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    Not surprisingly, the “study” seamlessly follows news about Americans’ willingness to “comply” with socialist ideology, Alaskans’ willingness to kill themselves in ever increasing numbers, and officials’ ongoing, intensive efforts to leverage normal concern about China flu into demoralizing Americans, disrupting their way of life, and destroying their economy.
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    Could it be that Americans, complacent after 244 years of freedom, have allowed themselves to be separated into 3 layers: (1) those who need to rule; (2) those who need to be ruled; and (3) Trump supporters?
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    An eagerly awaited sequel “study” might report how Alaskans successfully defy, disrupt, and disobey mask “mandates”; and how they persuade fellow Americans to rebel similarly.

13. Tom good god. I love our military but they hosed our soldiers with agent orange. My dad included. They exposed thousands of our soldiers to high concentration radiation bomb testing and it goes on and on. So don’t give me the BS about them being experts on every subject. How about our poorly armored hummers that caused many of our kids to loose appendages to road side bombs.

    • Good point, Doug. Plus, do not underestimate the degree of political correctness and “wokeness” in today’s military, which only feeds the automatic compliance to mindless, kneejerk and coercive mandates and restrictions.

    • Not everyone exposed to agent orange developed cancer. Agent orange probably save more lives than people who are exposed to it. When I was a kid we used to go out and play through the fog of the mosquito fogger guy and little did we know it was laced with DDT. New technology that came about from the a and h bombs needed to be tested before we could rely on it to save our country. And times of war a desperate country will go to anything they have to to survive. In world war II we turned a lot of our soldiers into speed freaks because that’s what Germany was doing. We had to try to make super soldiers to combat super soldiers. The Japanese send airplanes into our warships. I suppose you want to blame the Navy for not having enough armor on them as well. Bad guys do bad things and that’s why they’re going to burn in hell for all eternity.

14. Not really. I only wear a mask when it’s required for something I absolutely need. Groceries? Three bears “please wear a mask” is not the same as “YOU ARE REQUIRED AND DEMANDED OF YOU TO WEAR A MASK”. Places that say “Masks required”, I turn around, walk back to the truck and find a store that does not have the stupid signs and truly wants my business.

    Good businesses- We’re open! Come in! Wear a mask if you think it makes you safe!” (positive)
    Bad businesses- “**MASKS ARE MANDATORY. NO MASK, NO SERVICE.” (negative scare tactic)

    • They just want you keeping all your germs to yourself instead of spreading them around like typhoid Mary.

      • Except all randomized controlled trials with verified results show masks do NOTHING to prevent the spread of viruses. So you virtue signaling in your mask are just as likely to spread your germs around like typhoid Mary. Stores are either being threatened into compliance with government mandates or financially incentivized with printed money.

    • Many businesses with “Mask Required” signs only place it there to conform with government mandates due to threats of losing their business license. I know of more than one business owner who could care less if you wear a mask or not because they know it doesn’t work.

15. I must be the only one who sees that CDC reversed their ‘mask recommendation’. Over the weekend, CDC recanted their position that masks help. Now they officially say that masks do not work to prevent ‘infection’. Period. On their website.

    • “SCIENCE!!!!”

    • Nope
      I just looked and they say masks slow down the spread of the germs. there’s a diagram how the germs get coated on the inside of the mask. They say not to wear an n95 mask and save them for health professionals and this suggests that if Mass protect health officials it probably would help anybody wearing one.

16. Let’s just keep doing the same thing over and over true insanity but eventually it will work because we have heard immunity and theny we can say mask work, Good job AMERICA, You good little mindless meat puppets.

    • Sounds like a plan. Win win.

17. This judgment established a new standard of ethical medical behavior for the post World War II human rights era. Amongst other requirements, this document enunciates the requirement of voluntary informed consent of the human subject. The principle of voluntary informed consent protects the right of the individual to control his own body. The principles established by this code for medical practice now have been extended into general codes of medical ethics.

    The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. 1947 Nuremburg Code, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL No 7070 Volume 313: Page 1448, 7 December 1996.

    Further, the International Community has also adopted the Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights which asserts three fundamental rights:

    Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention (such as masks or vaccines) is only to be carried out with the prior free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice. Scientific research should only be carried out with the prior, free, express, and informed consent of the person concerned. The information should be adequate, provided in a comprehensible form and should include modalities for withdrawal of consent. Consent may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without any disadvantage or prejudice. In appropriate cases of research carried out on a group of persons or a community, additional agreement of the legal representatives of the group or community concerned may be sought. In no case should a collective community agreement or the consent of a community leader or other authority substitute for an individual’s informed consent. Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights.            As the Second Circuit Court of Appeals articulated in the case Abdullahi v. Pfizer, Inc., 562 F. 3d 163, 176 (Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit) (2009) “Courts are obligated to examine how the specificity of the norm compares with 18th-century paradigms, whether the norm is accepted in the world community, and whether States universally abide by the norm out of a sense of mutual concern. By eschewing this inquiry, the district court did not engage the fact that norms of customary international law are “discerned from myriad decisions made in numerous and varied international and domestic arenas” and “[do] not stem from any single, definitive, readily-identifiable source.” Abdullah v. Pfizer, Inc., op. cit., citing Flores, 414 F.3d at 247-48. “[T]he existence of a norm of customary international law is one determined, in part, by reference to the custom or practices of many States, and the broad acceptance of that norm by the international community. Agreements that are not self-executing or that have not been executed by federal legislation, including the ICCPR, are appropriately considered evidence of the current state of customary international law.” See Khulumani, 504 F.3d at 284 (Katzmann, J., concurring). Abdullah v. Pfizer, Inc., supra.The Appellate Court went on to say that “[t]he ICJ Statute permits, and Sosa encourages, among other things, that courts consider “international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law.” ICJ Statute, supra, at art. 38(1); Sosa, 542 U.S. at 734, 124 S.Ct. 2739 (“[W]here there is no treaty, and no controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations.”) Abdullah v. Pfizer, Inc., at 176-177, quoting The Paquete Habana, 175 U.S. at 700, 20 S.Ct. 290). One wonders if the state of Washington even qualifies as a “civilized nation”. There is no consent involved at all in the mandate issued by Weisman and adopted by Inslee. It is mandatory without the opportunity for consent, and such a mandate is anathema to the concept of ordered liberty. As Justice Cardozo articulated in the seminal case Palko v. Connecticut, 302 US 319, 324-35 (1937): “The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment makes it unlawful for a state to abridge by its statutes the freedom of speech which the First Amendment safeguards against encroachment by the Congress,” De Jonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353, 364; Herndon v. Lowry, 301 U.S. 242, 259; or the like freedom of the press, Grosjean v. American Press Co., 297 U.S. 233 ; Near v. Minnesota ex rel. Olson, 283 U.S. 697, 707; or the free exercise of religion, Hamilton v. Regents, 293 U.S. 245, 262; cf. Grosjean v. American Press Co., supra; Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510; or the right of peaceable assembly, without which speech would be unduly trammeled , De Jonge v. Oregon, supra; Herndon v. Lowry, supra; or the right of one accused of crime to the benefit of counsel, Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45. In these and other situations immunities that are valid as against the federal government by force of the specific pledges of particular amendments have been found to be implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, and thus, through the Fourteenth Amendment, become valid as against the states.” Palko, supra.

     

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