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Originally Posted by ricardodw
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In the first place, no, your understanding of what is happening is not a true dichotomy—certainly not between the ridiculous premises you have asserted.
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The large crowd in close proximity is an epidemic accelerator and need to protest breaking of the mitigation strategy puts the US back to the 2 million deaths scientific projection. This results in no hockey anywhere for 2 years.
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The answer is "Yes."
I don't believe there has been anything official to provide for large crowd gatherings as of yet, but based on the bit I have read now, the chance of increasing the virus spread is substantially escalated by the protest actions in the US:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/a...ndemic/612460/
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Originally Posted by The Atlantic
"The wave of mass protests across the United States will almost certainly set off new chains of infection for the novel coronavirus, experts say.
"The virus seems to spread the most when people yell (such as to chant a slogan), sneeze (to expel pepper spray), or cough (after inhaling tear gas). It is transmitted most efficiently in crowds and large gatherings, and research has found that just a few contagious people can infect hundreds of susceptible people around them. The virus can spread especially easily in small, cramped places, such as police vans and jails.
"As such, for the past several days, the virus has found new environments in which to spread across the United States. At least 75 cities have seen widespread demonstrations and social unrest as Americans have gathered to protest systemic racism and the killing of George Floyd, the black man who died last week under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer."
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Let's be clear, though: as far as I can tell, the protest actions are in violation of currently active rules for social distancing and crowd control. The fact that these are necessary protest actions has likely played into the response from authorities, and the situation is IN NO WAY analogous to the expectation that sports fans will be permitted to gather in large groups in order to view games. No team nor league is going to encourage mass gatherings amid the current social-distancing orders, and if people choose to violate these on their own I would imagine that the response from authorities would be considerably more emphatic.
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The mitigation strategy was a hoax and did nothing but exert government control on the masses.
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Come on. Can we get real for a moment, here? The fact that tens of thousands of people are breaking social distancing orders with the stated purpose of protest is not an indication of a "mitigation strategy hoax." This is unsurprising nonsense from you.
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Why do 20,000 strangers get to stand shoulder to shoulder in a protest and not a hockey game?
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Jiri clearly responded why this is happening, and why no one should interpret ongoing protests as even remotely analogous to future allowances made for crowds to watch sporting events.