Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post

As I stated in the coronavirus thread, the Norway situation should give you some pause. 96% of the population didn't mask through late August, and yet their death numbers were low. Why? Because they were told to simply social distance and be careful. It's possible this approach was actually better, because didn't have the mask security blanket, and thus felt less willing to go to public places!
Their death numbers are low because they dealt with the virus in spring. Last time they had more than 1 death a day on average was on May 14th. And that correlates heavily with infection numbers. Masks don't do anything when almost no one is infected.

On the other hand in the US you've had 10-20 times as many deaths per capita in the summer and fall. You never dealt with the virus. You started the flu season with insane amount of infections.

Last time almost every country started with zero infections halfway through the flu season.