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> 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/12689028204108431...

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Been 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.

Also 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.

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