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Re:Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On - Espec... by missingcolours on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:31PM (#23431237)
To quote arguments that were thrown at people who wanted to do things like hold funerals for loved ones, visit dying relatives, protest against destroying the life's work of small business owners, etc:

- You can do this over Zoom / online

- Just because this is important to YOU does NOT give you the right to sacrifice the lives of the others who will be denied hospital care because of your selfishness

- You really can't wait a couple months until this LITERAL PANDEMIC is over?

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Re:Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On - Espec... by alpha_squared on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:22PM (#23431954)
> You really can't wait a couple months until this LITERAL PANDEMIC is over?

Where does "a couple months" come from?

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Re:Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On - Espec... by SpicyLemonZest on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:26PM (#23432009)
The pandemic won't go away in a few months, but cases are trending significantly downwards. I think it's fair to predict that mass gatherings will be much safer in August than they are today.
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Re:Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On - Espec... by second--shift on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:36PM (#23432908)
> but cases are trending significantly downwards

I don't mean to nitpick, as I wish to uphold the high community standards here, but this is false when compared to the worldwide data in aggregate. New cases are actually spiking, higher than during the lockdown. See [1] , at the bottom right, "daily cases" tab. The record for 'total daily new cases' of ~130k was set 2 days ago, on 3 June.

Making individual (or collective) decisions based on the false premise of "cases are trending significantly downwards" is very dangerous.

[1] https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

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Re:Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On - Espec... by SpicyLemonZest on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:55PM (#23433188)
Yes, sorry, I was imprecise. Cases in the US are trending downwards and deaths are trending even further down, but there are many sub-areas of the US and other areas in the world where this isn't true.
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Re:Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On - Espec... by alpha_squared on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:33PM (#23432098)
As far as I'm aware, and I'd certainly welcome any information otherwise, super-spreader events are unpredictably random. Coupled with the incubation period, that still sounds like another wave.
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