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Romes187 posted...

I'm not sure how you aren't including it as a % in your "why" question. Or are you saying its weird people blaming it solely on the protests?

It's the same stupid arguments about differences in outcome. People want to be able to say "Ah yes racism/sexism is the cause!" when in reality, of course its partly caused by that, among 20 other variables.

but you know that so im assuming your post is about those who want to say "welp this is ALL bc of protests!"

I mean I'm not going to pretend to understand public health and epidemiology more than I do (unlike a ton of overnight experts these days) but I can just look at the timeline and cases and see that the protests can't be that significant an explanation. And I'm not sure how protests worked if I do try to dig into the science; like that nber paper shows that protests might be a cause of spreading... But the net effect might be a reduction in cases when you consider the counterfactual

In general I guess I just feel really ignorant and none of these people blaming protests are even trying to argue their point in a way that seems to be in good faith to me

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