fig96 said:
emando2000 said:
fig96 said:
tailgatetimer10 said:
Is this from one of the cities that is or isn't seeing a significant increase in cases? Because they look the same.
I'm surprised by it too, but if protests did cause a significant increase in cases why aren't we seeing that same increase everywhere that had protests?
Testing. Everyone and their dog is getting tested here. Are they doing the same in those cities?
I have no idea what's happening with testing state by state, but it's a pretty fascinating coincidence if the states that opened early are also the ones doing the most testing and also the ones increasing in cases.
Texas was behind in testing. It was a big gripe for the longest. This has changed and we're now testing to catch up and testing everyone...symptoms or no symptoms. Logic tells me that the increased testing increases the numbers. Logic also tells me that people had this virus before we opened up as well.
1,000-10,000 (whatever the number was) protested.
They were shoulder to shoulder.
The weather was in the 90s.
Some wore masks, some simply wore face coverings.
The protests were hours long.
They were breathing the same air.
It was a vocal protest meaning there was chanting....it's not like they breathed silently through their nose.
Logic: 90 degree weather thousands of protesters breathed the same air. They probably had to take their mask down due to sweating (it's logical) or taking a breath of fresh semi-covid air (more logic). When you have that many people in the same area, you're gonna breathe the same air (more logic). Chanting during the protests will release covid of an infected person. The mask isn't gonna keep all the covid in (seems logical, right).