WoMD said:

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Texaggie7nine said:

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The Italy/Spain champions league match was certainly the most publicized. I saw a piece awhile back that had looked at a lot of the first infected and compared their seating arrangements and found that they were clumped together around infected people. Makes sense, you are basically being showered in micro droplets of people screaming all game behind you.

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Weird how such a similar situation here didnt lead to outbreaks with all the protests. Actually it should be worse, since the crowds were constantly moving while shouting "kill whitey!", thus increasing the potential spread to more people clumped together, instead of smaller pockets limited to those around you in a stadium.

Why hasn't science studied the immunity of protestors? You would think that since that scenario has some natural resistance against covid that medical researchers would have focused on why or how they had better protection than other groups who are pushed against each other while yelling continuously (including people in baseball games who are 30 feet apart in outside stadiums, while required to wear masks and who have mandatory proof of immunization or negative tests, all while cheering with not nearly the force of what you see at soccer games).

A true enigma. We may never truly understand...

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West Point Aggie said:

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Aston94 said:

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WoMD said:

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Texaggie7nine said:

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The Italy/Spain champions league match was certainly the most publicized. I saw a piece awhile back that had looked at a lot of the first infected and compared their seating arrangements and found that they were clumped together around infected people. Makes sense, you are basically being showered in micro droplets of people screaming all game behind you.

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Weird how such a similar situation here didnt lead to outbreaks with all the protests. Actually it should be worse, since the crowds were constantly moving while shouting "kill whitey!", thus increasing the potential spread to more people clumped together, instead of smaller pockets limited to those around you in a stadium.

Why hasn't science studied the immunity of protestors? You would think that since that scenario has some natural resistance against covid that medical researchers would have focused on why or how they had better protection than other groups who are pushed against each other while yelling continuously (including people in baseball games who are 30 feet apart in outside stadiums, while required to wear masks and who have mandatory proof of immunization or negative tests, all while cheering with not nearly the force of what you see at soccer games).

A true enigma. We may never truly understand...

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I think the protests did lead to outbreaks, but there was a large effort to not blame the outbreaks on protests.

I anecdotally know of 2 outbreaks that were due to summer protests. I am sure a real study would reveal significantly more.

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Of course protests led to outbreaks! Duh! Youd have to be a blind moron and a partisan hack not to realize this. However to some, the virus "stayed away" from protests.

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Texaggie7nine said:

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Your sarcasm confuses me. We DID see infection rates here skyrocket 2 weeks after the large protests and demonstrations in the streets.

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WoMD said:

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Texaggie7nine said:

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Your sarcasm confuses me. We DID see infection rates here skyrocket 2 weeks after the large protests and demonstrations in the streets.

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Sarcasm, yes. But ask anyone in California, as an example, and protesting wasn't a source of spread.

Hence why newsom shut down literally every other form of gatherings of people except for outdoor protesting. He did at least ban indoor protesting, so I guess that's something.

Anyone with a brain knows that protesting was a huge source of spread.

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