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Unbridled9 posted...

I'm sorry, but that makes no sense.

I didn't say it made sense, I'm just saying it's the truth.

I don't understand it either. The protests seemed like they should be an excellent event for spreading the virus, yet all indications so far are that no such spread occurred.

Unbridled9 posted...

Either way, that's the sort of thing that results in people refusing to listen to health experts and disregarding their advise entirely.

Well, what are you expecting them to do? Lie about the results and pretend that there actually is a huge spike in protest areas (or that there isn't one in red states right now)? You're getting upset at them for accurately reporting the current state of the virus.

It's worth noting that while the experts remain our best source of information about the virus, they too are flying somewhat blind on this. They are still learning about the virus as it goes along - for instance, they're now thinking there's a good possibility that it's airborne, which substantially changes our understanding of how the disease spreads (the entire two metre distancing rule is based on the idea that the virus *isn't* airborne and therefore we only need to worry about the virus being spread from things like sneezing or yelling or singing spreading moisture droplets). They're not going to be 100% right about this virus from the get-go. That doesn't mean their advice is worthless, but it also means it's understandable that they're occasionally going to get things wrong and we shouldn't necessarily be getting super-upset about that.

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