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There's almost certainly a lot of safe opening up we could do. What would make it dramatically safer would be pro-social behavior from people on the right. The
by pfkurtz 6y ago
There's almost certainly a lot of safe opening up we could do. What would make it dramatically safer would be pro-social behavior from people on the right. The protesters are all wearing masks and doing their best to maintain social distance outside of the actions. They calculate that it is worth the risk. Time will tell, but the calculus isn't merely do the protests increase the spread? but also will they achieve political goals that have a large bearing on public health, specifically the health of people whom the US Coronavirus response is already systematically failing (black people, whose lives matter).
- jtbayly 6y ago> The protesters are all wearing masks Really? I keep seeing people saying this. It’s laughably false. Here is the governor of MI at a protest that breaks her own rules about social distancing and protests, directly between two men without masks. (Just one high profile example.) https://mobile.twitter.com/TPCarney/status/1268902820410843136 https://mobile.twitter.com/TPCarney/status/12689028204108431...
- pfkurtz 6y agoBeen to a major one, and a very, very high percentage of the people there wore masks, enough that it was consistently odd to see people without them. Also people trying as much as possible to keep a little space between each other. Who wasn't wearing masks, consistently? White male police (the National Guard was all masked). Doubt me if you want. Obviously a rhetorical "all" and very easy to find photographic counterexamples. But certainly most.
- pfkurtz 6y agoAlso there were many people distributing masks to the maskless, and people whose sole mission was to pump hand sanitizer onto people's hands. The people in the crowd care about the virus and for the most part when right back to social distancing after leaving the protest.