Kansas City announced a 10 PM bar curfew on 11/16. #COVID19 cases peaked on 11/10 - 6 days before the curfew was even announced. Kansas City bar visits dipped slightly at the end of November, but resurged in January - all while cases continue to nosedive.
On a month-to-month basis, January has (so far) been the busiest month for bars over the last 5 months (Chiefs playoffs?). Average daily cases are also at their lowest level since October. Politicians and bureaucrats here are crediting bar curfews for the decline in cases anyway.
KC Public Health Director @RexArcherMD infamously compared the risk of dining at a restaurant to jumping out of a second story window. Oddly, Kansas City citizens did not heed his warning, and while cases have gone up and down, restaurant visits have remained fairly consistent.
Maybe everyone finally started wearing masks in KC? Survey data doesn't support it. Over this entire 5-month stretch, with cases going up, plateauing and falling, compliance was consistently above 90%. So if it's not restaurants, bars, or masks...why are cases here going down?
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