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How the Media Failed Its COVID Test: The Truth Behind the Lab Leak and Masking Debates
Plain English with Derek Thompson
What Do You Think the Smartest Mask Critics Get Wrong?
An author of the Cockrood report slash Cockrood meta analysis is about to co-author an op-ed with you saying that the report broadly interpreted by the media and quoted by some of the lead authors of the report didn't actually show that. "Mask mandates, I would say, that is one name for a wide variety of different things that sometimes increase mass use and sometimes don't," he says. It's not that those things won't be, won't like reduce weight; it's that they're almost impossible to enforce.
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