Either “protesting” is
a) a healthy activity, so social contact guidelines should be adjusted, or
b) not enough time has gone by to see if it caused an increase in infections or
c) if they don’t pick up in the next week or two, the social contact distancing guidelines are clearly unnecessary.
Meanwhile, in Oregon, only Whites need wear masks. Blacks are exempt from this requirement, but if as a consequence they exhibit increased infection rates, it’s because of systemic racism. Win-win?
or...
d) was bullcrap the entire time.
The average incubation period is 5 days and it has been 30 days since the first "protest."
Cases have had some increases because testing has increased but deaths continue to decline. If there hasn't been a spike by now there's not going to be.