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Lest we forget the second wave in the US due to mass nationwide protests? Masking up is great, and there are too many busybodies in convenience stores getting upset because an employee asked them to wear a mask, but the problem is obviously deeper than a couple of anti-maskers

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Cities with large protests did not suffer from increased rates of COVID--see New York City, for example. Cities with lower rates of mask usage did experience high rates of COVID infection--see Phoenix, Arizona.

A percentage of HNers will say "Correlation is not causation." But the history of places like NYC and San Francisco that had huge demonstrations against police brutality without increased rates of transmission disproves "the second wave in the US due to mass nationwide protests."

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