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You just don't seem to understand droplet transmission. It's not a new concept, it's the same way tons of illnesses get around. Prevent those droplets from getting in to your mouth, and prevent your droplets from getting in to other peoples mouths, and you've done the bulk of the work necessary to avoid spreading disease.

It's really that simple. It's not about being perfect or 100%. It's only about reducing the rate of transmission of the virus and masks are probably the easiest way to do that.

EDIT: And in terms of mass protests, NYC easily had among the largest protests over the course of a month and saw absolutely no increase in the transmission rate of the virus. Why? Probably because everyone wore masks. So don't blame protests, facts don't back that up.

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Total LOL, The amount of screaming, spitting and close contact at these riots -- they've all should of been infected and marked as covid patients already. No one is transmitting anything other than their stupidity.

Why didn't anyone get sick? Cause it's not real or as serious as the media is making it as*. How is that there is all these protestors and not a single one of them ended up in the damn hospital from attracting Covid? It's total bullshit

> not a single one of them ended up in the damn hospital from attracting Covid

You got hard data to prove this claim? No? Then don't make the fucking claim and jump to the "great" conclusion that "It's not real!"

Hard data? I'm in the heart of it and have been dealing with it for 2 months now. Try living this shit instead of reading about it on all your favorite manipulated news outlet. I got my whole HN reputation wiped out clean just for speaking out on it Smfh!

Most HN readers are geeks, geeks are usually scientific, your single observation/conclusion that it's all fake, without any data, and that no one has died contradicts thousands of data points of 13 million sick and half a million dead. So your reputation being wiped out clean is, IMO, deserved.

Then again, flat-earthers think they also have the scientific method behind them... and that all those thousands of scientists saying "Please, let me show you why the world is spherical." are in some sort of giant conspiracy to... what, protect the lizard overlords?

Yeah I forgot people want flawed backed-up statistics to support their claims... just go on WorldoMeter and look at how many recovered versus to how many died. It's just a fucking flu.

You think my reputation deserved to be wiped out just for sharing my personal experiences working at the hospital during this covid fad? Ok, dude.

You're not getting downvoted from "sharing personal experiences", you're getting downvoted for screaming your flawed conclusion "It's allll fakeeeeeddd!" from your bubble of observation. Against thousands of other conclusions backed up with data. Which you are dismissing as invalid or is a giant conspiracy.

Do you wear the seatbelt while in a car? From my experience I would've been fine in all the car journeys I've ever taken if I hadn't worn the seatbelt, but I keep wearing them and I don't go on the internet and scream "Seatbelts are unnecessary!!!!". From your car ride experiences, you'd probably agree, so why do you keep wearing it? Is it because you trust the (scientifically done) experiments that show how badly hurt or dead you can be if you don't wear it?

How many more people need to die before you change your mind?

There were about 35,000 deaths in the US during the 2018-2019 flu season.

There have been about 135,000 deaths in the US from COVID-19 so far. And the number of deaths per day is going back up.

So how many people do you think need to die in 2020 from COVID-19 before we should be taking it seriously and not considering it "just a fucking flu"? Another 35,000? More?

Apart from a CFR many times higher than flu, and an infection rate many times higher than flu - somewhere in the region of a third (!) of all COVID-19 infectees suffer long-term, maybe permanent debilitation. We're talking lung scars, chronic fatigue, neurological difficulties. The flu doesn't do that, not at that kind of rate anyway.

> Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

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I'm sure some people got COVID-19 at protests, but all data shows that it did not drive any major uptick in the transmission rate. The assumption is that outdoor transmission is pretty rare and that masks help reduce the chance even further.

As for it not being "real", I'm not sure why 100+ different national governments - ranging from far left to far right - and medical professionals around the globe would all conspire to make something up. Hard to imagine. Impossibly hard to imagine.

Hard to imagine that we went from a total lockdown 1 month ago to suddenly racial wars/ BLM the next month. Absolute clown world. Toxicity of this has already spreaded all over the world, people advocating for the same crap. Corona! BLM! Masks! Vaccines!

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