masked up

Majority of the protesters wore mask, washed hands and had hand sanitizers on them. t-rump's protesters - majority did not wear mask.

I thought crowded indoor activities were far more risky then outdoor activities?

Since a lot of the big city and probably many of the smaller ones have Democratic mayors they are just using these kind of statements to deflect from the Republican governors ineptness in handling the pandemic. Hopefully people siee through the lies.

A lot of us are getting sick of their take, take, take.

They were all out in their maskless glory for Mike Pence.

I don't think we've had any large protests here at all. We've been having some of our biggest Covid numbers, though. Probably has mostly to do with churches, bars, family gatherings, as you say.

... because it has a bit of a libertarian orientation coming down from Steve Forbes, at least in the past. Dunno what role he has these days.

The timing clearly fits with the premature re-openings around the country.

This kind of after-the-fact rationalization of failed decisions by gas-lighting the causes to direct attention away from the truth HAS GOT TO STOP!

Average time to onset of symptoms is around 4.5 days. Add in a day to say, "Shit, I'm sick ..." and get one's sorry ass to the COVID-testing site and get the swab shoved through your nose.

Millions die from anti-lockdown protests and spring break. But healing descends from BLM protests.

It's why research reproducibility and social utility of research are so absolutely inversely related.

Suppose a state is finding say a steady rate of about 400 new cases a day when things are prematurely opened up. That will mean some days are getting 500 and some 300. And those are the ones detected. There may be 5 to 10 times that many asymptomatically infected each day, 300 x 5 = 1500, 500 x 10 = 5000, so 1500 to 5000 asymptomatic new cases each day, 300-500 detected.

Now the opening up causes a series of hot spot breakouts. There might be say 500 new infections on the first day, over and above the level bubbling around in the pot from before. But they won't be detectable until 5-7 days later. And only 10-20% will be detected. So 50 to 100 might be detected. If you have a low day, even 100 won't be noticed (300 + 100 = 400). And it would take a high day and a high detection (500 + 100 = 600) for something to poke up above the noisy statistical floor, which is unlikely, but would probably happen within a few days more or less. So after say 8-10 days you might get a slight uptick where a few people notice and say "is that an uptick I'm seeing or just an extra strong day?"

But those new cases are also infecting new cases, and the new little outbreaks might be in pockets that were hardly infected or not previously infected. So think of it as a doubling time of 7 days in the new hot spots.

So after 7 days the initial spreading rate of 500 extra new detected infections a day is now 1000 extra new ones a day (5000 to 10,000 total including asymptomatic). But they won't be detected until 5-7 days later, hence 12 days or so after the premature re-opening when the average new case load detected each day will be running about 1000 per day and climbing. So in two weeks, a bunch of people will be getting alarmed. But most others won't be paying attention or won't figure it out or won't care.

It will take a couple weeks more for a Republican governor to become sufficiently alarmed to actually say something in public and a couple more weeks after that for them to move into action and go back a bit on openings. By that time (6 weeks later) the state might be finding 4,000 new cases a day and things are out of control.

exists only to promote Republicksum bullshit.

Vote 'em out, every one of them.

because liberals are diabolical like that. Why did liberals prevent increased cases in Washington DC, NYC, Minneapolis, and other Northern liberal cities? Is it because we hate the rural South so much?

Source: Associated Press

Read more: https://apnews.com/11fd7ee4936524294109a1a7b0897920

. . .but when they do, they choose the morons like Tate Reeves.

National Bureau of Economic Research did an analysis that showed the protests don't correlate to the surge in cases.
Reeves is just a know-nothing punk!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1014&pid=2531028

And neither peer reviewed nor replicated.

Not gold standard.

Not silver standard.

Pushing tin standard.

Meanwhile even blue-state governors are having to admit that their health agencies are saying that protests of a BLM nature have contributed.

That, of course, means neither solely responsible nor completely irrelevant, tough for all-or-nothing analyses.

But, if the devil's advocate thing works for you, have at it.
Taking a contrary position countering things I didn't say, however, seems a waste of energy.
I never said it was the ultimate word.
Your counter is actually the reason Reeve's should have shut up.

as reflected in their current new case count.

Dumb as a rock...

perhaps he should blame GOD

Outdoor protesting is relatively safe, as has been proven again and again.

Was it protests of family BBQ’s over the Memorial Day weekend? Completely ignoring the jam packed bars and beaches filled with mask-less idiots. Another ridiculous straw man argument.