culdeus said:
kag00 said:
oglaw said:
Just watched Sylvester Turners pc here in Houston. Says in the last two days have had over 1700 positive cases. Then says testing on these cases was done between June 9th -17th. Can somebody remind me what was happening before and during that time?
I really want to understand the impact of the protests on the spike. This is key data as the spike appears to correlate exactly to the mass gatherings. If we can determine that the mass gatherings were a main driver (or not) it would be very informative for future risk mitigation decisions.
There seems very minimal evidence the protests caused anything. Mask usage and outdoor events together make it very hard to spread this thing (which was already known). Indoor vs. outdoor settings unmasked has 20x less spread out of a few studies now. With effective mask usage at 80% and outdoors it's entirely possible there is nearly no spread whatsoever. In this way the protests could really be used to drive policy to some extent (like football games and other sporting events outdoors could happen)
New York said their contact tracers were not going to ask if people had been to the protest. Here's one article:
https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-contact-tracers-not-asking-people-attend-george-floyd-protest-2020-6In Minnesota, the police said they were going to use "contact tracing" for protesters as far as police work. There has been quite a bit of push back in regards to contact tracing in Minnesota around the protests.
If those two places aren't asking, what about other cities?
I've seen articles that say contact tracing only works when we get peoples trust back regarding the protests and using the contact tracing to not arrest or investigate people who said they were at the protest.
My point is, how do confidently we know the protests had minimal effect? Can we be confident if places really aren't asking?
Is it kind of a self-fulfilling prophesy of sorts if we aren't willing to actually ask and figure out where someone became positive?
Finally, can you please post some stuff for me to read? As I told Hotard, I genuinely want to read and understand because this seems like excellent news that should be shared all over the place.
It should allow outdoor sports stadiums like most of baseball and football to be opened up with masks.