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FWIW I've tried to do my research and CS seems to be the one we were exposed to (it was also called that at the time but I didn't want to say it as I wouldn't state that as a fact based on what I heard informally 20 years ago.)

We were a few hundred recruits who were exposed to it at that week and everyone seemed to be fine next day.

I'm fourty now and I've never experienced any problem that I would guess comes from my experience with tear gas.

(FWIW, I was exposed to it in a closed room but only briefly, not more than a minute or so I'd guess, possibly less.)

Maybe commonly, but a) we have a pandemic right now and making people cough feels like an absolutely stupid idea and b) what about people with respiratory illnesses, e.g. asthma? You don't think that could play out badly?

Routinely assembling in large crowds during a pandemic is an absolutely stupider idea.

I'm not saying there isn't something worth protesting right now, but the timing is far from ideal.

I've been in CS gas chambers multiple times over the past 20 years. No big deal. Should be even less of a problem for people sucking a bit of gas in the open air, not deliberately breathing it.