Still no stories about Covid spread due to protests

[Loki]

@Axtremus said in Still no stories about Covid spread due to protests:

https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/how-the-protests-have-changed-the-pandemic

How the Protests Have Changed the Pandemic
Mass demonstrations in all fifty states have upended reopening timetables and altered the meaning of the antiviral fight.
By Dhruv Khullar
June 4, 2020

But the blame game has been permanently altered. Let’s see who stays in now that blame isn’t a good reason.

[George K]

@George-K said in Still no stories about Covid spread due to protests:

https://babylonbee.com/news/churchgoers-avoid-arrest-by-disguising-themselves-as-rioters

When life imitates The Bee

[Mik]

@Larry said in Still no stories about Covid spread due to protests:

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

On the same day.

[Mik]

I would say there is a GKSR for that but I don’t think there is one for blithe unawareness.

[jon-nyc]

National Guardsmen deployed to DC protests test positive.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/09/coronavirus-live-updates-us/#link-JIZG464XKNG7JDLKKB7NLH4CAQ

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Still no stories about Covid spread due to protests:

National Guardsmen deployed to DC protests test positive.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/09/coronavirus-live-updates-us/#link-JIZG464XKNG7JDLKKB7NLH4CAQ

Gonna be a bunch more where that came from...

[jon-nyc]

Yep

[Copper]

@jon-nyc said in Still no stories about Covid spread due to protests:

National Guardsmen deployed to DC protests test positive.

Troublemakers, no better than the police.

[Mik]

[89th]

@Mik lolz

[George K]

[Axtremus]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/activists-halt-street-protests-in-south-carolina-as-some-demonstrators-become-infected/2020/06/22/cf8afa6a-b4c2-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html

‘South Carolina racial justice activists said they would postpone future demonstrations or move them online after at least 13 people who took part in previous protests tested positive for the coronavirus.

As the number of cases across the country continued to climb ominously Monday, organizers of “I Can’t Breathe” protests in South Carolina urged participants to get tested for the virus.

In a video posted Sunday on Facebook, organizer Lawrence Nathaniel said demonstrators who marched in Columbia, S.C., between May 30 and June 17 had tested positive. He said four organizers were confirmed infected, along with three photographers and six protesters.
“We need to do our part,” he said. “Go get tested. Don’t come to a protest until you get tested, okay?”
...’

[Rainman]

I confess part of me wants the protesters to get sick, especially those that desecrate statues, burn businesses and break the backs of those hard working people that have their lives invested in their businesses.

I hope they get real sick. And, lots of them.

Ax, I'm ahead of your "what about Trump rallies" question, which I'm sure would be coming.

No, I don't want any patriots to get sick. Frankly, after watching the Trump crowds, I might suggest Jenny Craig so they don't get sick later in life. I think pound for pound, Trump rallies have the street protesters beat.