2,476 teenagers - ages 13-19 - dead due lack of distancing. 2 of every 3 were males. Rates highest at ages 16-17. Masks had no known effect.

Free Republic ^ | 9:28:31 PM Sat, 10/03/20 | daniel1212

[Patriot_MP]

The Institute for Highway Safety reports 11 teens die every day due to texting while driving. Now, a new study shows teens who text and drive are more likely to exhibit other dangerous behaviors.

77 teens die every week (Age 16 -19)

4.015 deaths every year

So - texting is more dangerous to teens while driving than COVID.

[Patriot_MP]

4,015 deaths every year

oops — typo....

[daniel1212]

The Institute for Highway Safety reports 11 teens die every day due to texting while driving. Now, a new study shows teens who text and drive are more likely to exhibit other dangerous behaviors. 77 teens die every week (Age 16 -19) 4.015 deaths every year So - texting is more dangerous to teens while driving than COVID

Yes, although there is a discrepancy btwn stats based upon the U.S. Department of Transportation's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), that "A total of 2,476 teenagers ages 13-19 died in motor vehicle crashes in 2018" and what https://www.necn.com/news/local/_necn__highway_safety__11_teens_die_every_day_due_to_texting_while_driving_necn/163912/ reports, that "The Institute for Highway Safety reports 11 teens die every day due to texting while driving" = 4,015 deaths every year.

[Truthoverpower]

I’m still haunted by a fatal crash in October 2016 that had two brothers and a friend they all died

I can’t imagine being parents and losing both of their children that way

[Wuli]

The keeping the youth idle (out of school) was one of the worst aspects and least necessary, least scientific aspects of the U.S. Covid-19 public health measures. Evidence against it was available globally but largely ignored by the states and the K-12 schools in the U.S.

[Tymesup]

How much does wearing a mask help?

[Trillian]

If you make every death a covid death, that’s how you get that many or more.

[BlackAdderess]

A stitched, two-layer cotton mask limits the droplet spread to 2.5 inches. Single layer bandanas are the least effective masks, reducing droplet spread to 3 feet 7 inches. Without any mask droplets will spread 12 feet.

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0016018

[Tymesup]

Thanks for the reply.

So, does a mask reduce transmission by 100%? 10%? 1%?

[BlackAdderess]

That depends on whether or not you are ok with people up in your face I think, that is if you and they are wearing the good masks, who knows with the bandanas.