COVID Cases Surging in Areas With Mask Mandates

Even now, well after mask mandates have been completely disproven as a potential "intervention" against the spread of COVID, many parts of the world remain committed to this ineffective policy.

A new report from the Daily Mail highlights how comparisons of Australia to New Zealand and Singapore indicate, yet again, that mandates and mask wearing does not reduce COVID cases.

New Zealand continues to have a strict mask mandate that covers nearly all indoor settings, yet cases there continue to rise and are now among the highest in the world, after adjusting for population:

Similarly, Singapore has experienced a rapid increase in COVID cases and other metrics, despite maintaining a mask mandate with exceptionally high compliance and vaccination rates.

Even more embarrassingly, Singapore was specifically singled out as a supposed success story by Jerome Adams, the former U.S. Surgeon General.

Adams claimed on Twitter earlier in 2022 that the city "controlled surges" with "masking and mitigation:"

Meanwhile, Australia currently has lower case rates than either country, despite lifting many mask mandates and seeing significantly compliance percentages:

Population Adjusted Case Rate Comparison

This is the exact opposite of what was predicted by many supposed "experts" and major media outlets.

No matter how often they're proven wrong, they continually return to the inaccurate assumption that lifting mask mandates will lead to inevitable disaster.

Conversely, Ashish Jha, the Biden administration's chief COVID coordinator, claimed in a recent interview in support of LA's upcoming mask mandate, that wearing masks "really will make a difference:"

"CDC has very clear guidance on this as well through their COVID community levels. And the CDC recommendation is that when you’re in a high zone, that sort of orange zone, you know, people wearing masks indoors is really important, and it really will make a difference.”

Jha never has to face a follow up question asking him why mask wearing indoors is currently not working in other countries, if it's "really important" and "will make a difference."

There's simply uncritical acceptance that what he says is fact, because he is the one saying it. Data, science and evidence are unnecessary when it comes to authorities repeating inaccurate talking points.

Even an Australian infectious disease professor succinctly explained how important imposing a new mask mandates is to slowing the spread: "It doesn't matter."