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Symptoms typically manifest in a week for the majority of cases. Considering the scope of the protests, we'd be seeing spikes in NYC, NJ, MN, etc if they were a

• Gibbon1 6y ago
  My theory because the protests happen outside and a lot of people were wearing masks, the total effective exposure is a small fraction of the population total. Bonus the groups protesting probably are otherwise doing a good job protecting themselves.
  • greedo 6y ago
    Masks really do a good job, which is why I'm still irate about the CDC guidelines in March. I think they were a tremendous disservice to the country. Yes, we didn't want to use up our small supply of N95 masks when they were more valuable to healthcare providers etc. But cloth masks work very well if used by a large percentage of the population. Manufacturing them would have been a very fast win, possibly cutting the infection rate in half, and a corresponding cut in fatalities. My daughter was sewing cloth masks by March 15 when it was almost impossible to come by an N95 mask. She's made over 20 reusable masks. How hard would it have been for the rest of the country to do something similar, had we been given effective leadership?
    • Gibbon1 6y ago
      I read an essay about Mongolia. When China locked down Wuhan they closed their borders, closed schools, and because they also had a shortage of masks simply told people that they had to save the N95 masks for healthcare workers. And had seamstresses sew cloth masks and sell them to pharmacies. They did this without having any detected cases.