Posted on 06/08/2020 3:38:53 PM PDT by NoLibZone
After months of deserted public spaces and empty roads, Americans have returned to the streets. But they have come not for a joyous reopening to celebrate the country’s victory over the coronavirus. Instead, tens of thousands of people have ventured out to protest the killing of George Floyd by police.
Demonstrators have closely gathered all over the country, and in blocks-long crowds in large cities, singing and chanting and demanding justice. Police officers have dealt with them roughly, crowding protesters together, blasting them with lung and eye irritants, and cramming them into paddy wagons and jails.
There’s no point in denying the obvious: Standing in a crowd for long periods raises the risk of increased transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This particular form of mass, in-person protest—and the corresponding police response—is a “perfect set-up” for transmission of the virus, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a radio interview on Friday. Some police-brutality activists (such as Black Lives Matter Seattle) have issued statements about the risk involved in the protests. Others have organized less risky forms of protests, such as Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project’s massive “caravan for justice.” More Stories
These numbers all reflect infections that likely began before this week of protest. An even larger spike now seems likely.
Put another way: If the country doesn’t see a substantial increase in new COVID-19 cases after this week, it should prompt a rethinking of what epidemiologists believe about how the virus spreads.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
How COVID was handled is a hoax.
Wait, apparently, The Atlantic has not heard that BLM cured Covid-19?
George Floyd killed COVID-19. It was AMAZING!
Thousands in the streets....but only 150 allowed in NYS for graduations. How stupid...AND WRONG....is that.
Americans are starting to realize they’ve been had. With thousands of Democrats participating in Retard Pride Parades since almost two weeks ago, no spike. The Chinese Chest Cold is petering out just like any other cold or flu.
The silver lining to the riots, people realize that it’s ok now to go out.
“Instead, tens of thousands of people have ventured out to protest the killing of George Floyd by police.”
During the 60’s demonstrations the guys all came out for the chicks. Now, they are down for the cause and other guys. Fruitarama.
America Is Giving Up on the Pandemic
What pandemic?
Worse than a hoax. Worse than a farce. It was obscene. Particulalry in states with power mad governors and mayors.
The big lie,they want you to believe. Like the Wuhan Scam it's media propaganda. The vast majority of America could care less.
If it was a pandemic, hospitals would have been full and they wouldn’t be falsifying so many death certificates.
It’s Monday in central Kansas at a remote lake. We stop here on our way to Colorado. The place is crowded!
Protesters?! More like rioting anarchists. Well, it IS the Atlantic!
Mr. Rabbit wrote:
“Americans are starting to realize they’ve been had. With thousands of Democrats participating in Retard Pride Parades since almost two weeks ago, no spike. The Chinese Chest Cold is petering out just like any other cold or flu.”
Yep, see what happens in a week or two.
If no big jump in cases, then we’ve indeed been had.
Still should’ve banned all incoming flights, closed the borders, sent any wuhanvirus patients to the field hospitals, closed care homes to outside visits, only have over-65 with underlying conditions stay home, and keep the rest of America working.
But America is getting back to work; look at the employment numbers from May.
We never saw the bodies of the homeless everywhere either.
Today is Day #12 of protests — we would have ALREADY seen it
We never saw the bodies of the homeless everywhere either.
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Nor the bodies of all the prisoners who tested positive.
It’s been two weeks already. No spike.
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