*Sigh* We need to kill this myth. A few things:
1) Neither being outside nor many participants wearing a mask fully prevents virus spread. Those measures just reduce it. Especially with events where many people are in close proximity, chanting/screaming, & touching.
1) Neither being outside nor many participants wearing a mask fully prevents virus spread. Those measures just reduce it. Especially with events where many people are in close proximity, chanting/screaming, & touching.
https://twitter.com/klcmurphy/status/1317618522147721217
2) Anyone who tells you that a march with thousands of strangers in a small space, even w masks and outside, is safer than a family gathering for Thanksgiving has no idea what they are talking about.
3) Notice this logic isn't applied to Trump rallies. We haven't seen major spikes in cities after those rallies but press/same people never use that as evidence that they aren't an issue...
4) The reason isn't that there isn't virus spread happening at protests (or the rallies), but that it isn't usually enough to cause a major spike in a city. It's very hard to trace back an outbreak to an event with thousands of strangers so you don't hear about those cases.
Correct. There was obviously a large spike after protests began. Defenders focus on it not being traceable to specific cities and it coincided w Memorial Day. I still argue visual of protests led to people relaxing their precautions.
https://twitter.com/ProppaTingz1/status/1317626127628656641
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