@Expecting_Words @Render Think original protests around 5/30 didn’t spread COVID much because numbers were low...that’s changing fast.
@Render It's hard to really do justice to the constant quarantine parties but like imagine every 1/10 mile^2 has one of these parties at all times and they're fitting between 30-80 people into a brownstone (or whatever). It's pretty much the same deal with a bar. Very limited air circulation, no social distancing, and drunk slobbery people w/ limited mask use.
It's been driving me crazy for the last 2 months or so.
@Expecting_Words @Render Whoa! Didn’t know people are doing house parties 😱
@yogapaddlerun there's a cottage industry built around them now
@Heucuva8 I have... complicated feelings on the mom. On the one hand her neglect led to the death of her daughter. On the other hand seeing a woman demonized for ignorance resulting from the cultural/media bubble she exists in, immediately after the death of her daughter... It's very sad.
@Render @Expecting_Words In Minnesota, where I know more than US, the protests didn’t cause a spike. We were testing like 15k a day for almost three weeks targeting people at protests/cleanups. Bars/restaurants/gyms opened 10 days later and that is where we start seeing increase +14 days (still really small) Now MN has outbreaks traced to sports practice. So I don’t think outdoors is safe, but the protest gatherings don’t seem a big driver. This virus is weird.
@yogapaddlerun NYC should have seen an explosion of cases following the protests which have happened every single day at multiple locations throughout the city. We had plenty of infected ppl at those rallies.
@Render srs though we are truly f***ed. I can't say for sure the protests are safe or not, but I doubt they'll have the impact that the wildly irresponsible behavior will. There are block parties going on all the time in illegally rented homes. And I know those aren't safe. And this is in one of the worst hit areas in the whole country. People are dumb :(
And in other states... with bars open... doomed.