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Re:America is giving up on the pandemic? by rayhendricks on Sunday June 07, 2020 @08:01PM (#23452212)
I agree with this statement. At least here in Seattle the protesters and police are packed closely together and are yelling at oneanother. Very few if any police are wearing masks (I was ~20ft from anyone & wearing a mask but wanted to see things 1st hand).

IMO this will create a level of pandemic similar to NYC unless we really start testing and contact-tracing. It does feel like much of the left is OK with this, whereas everyone was freaking out when the reopen protesters were protesting. This is inconsistent, and unfortunate as I do have somewhat left-leaning views.

Re:America is giving up on the pandemic? by drusepth on Sunday June 07, 2020 @08:39PM (#23452417)
Do you think most protestors would be okay with contract tracing, especially when the most critical times to trace are during protests?
Re:America is giving up on the pandemic? by javagram on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:01PM (#23453188)
Contact tracing a protest makes no sense anyway.

Taking down a list of people who dined at a restaurant during a certain time period is one thing.

How are you supposed to contact trace a 10,000 person protest? No one is going to know the random people they happened to be standing next to and chanting at a specific moment.

If these protests are super spreading events it blows a huge hole in any attempt at contact tracing & targeted quarantine/isolation. Hopefully it turns out the virus somehow can’t spread well in these conditions otherwise this is a huge setback for a country that just sacrificed so much to reduce the virus prevalence.

Re:America is giving up on the pandemic? by rayhendricks on Monday June 08, 2020 @03:15AM (#23454314)
If COVID can’t spread as well due to higher heat and wind that would be great. But literally this evening I saw the same thing again walking around with the thousand protestors in close proximity to the police. According to the CDC the last super-spreader event in this area was 53.3% to 86.7% infected [0] but that was in an enclosed space.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6919e6.htm

Re:America is giving up on the pandemic? by blub on Monday June 08, 2020 @04:07AM (#23454586)
I doubt that.

Consider that when people are yelling and standing tightly packed together, even if there's wind it won't blow away the droplets, just the aerosols. And new aerosols will be continuously generated...