[Genuine Realist]

Offered without comment. The rise in lower age groups is particularly interesting. 

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/noah-...=automated

I just looked at the numbers for New York, DC, and PA, all of which had of immense proportions protests, and there is no recent increase in any covid metric.  Here's New York City's data specifically.  Scroll down and you'll see no increase in cases or positive test % recently.  https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page

Attributing the increases elsewhere to the protest is completely specious.  You could just as easily say that Memorial Day get-togethers were to blame.  Meanwhile, there is lots of evidence that social distancing has been decreasing for months in the US.  Check out the graph below from Apple's mobility data: https://www.apple.com/covid19/mobility That is your explanation, not protests.

It's counterintuitive in the extreme to think they had no statistical effect.

But also to be considered is the effect on social discipline, undermining the regimen. If social distancing can be abandoned in this context, why not Party Hardy in others?

[Genuine Realist]

Offered without comment. The rise in lower age groups is particularly interesting. 

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/noah-...=automated

I just looked at the numbers for New York, DC, and PA, all of which had of immense proportions protests, and there is no recent increase in any covid metric.  Here's New York City's data specifically.  Scroll down and you'll see no increase in cases or positive test % recently.  https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page

Attributing the increases elsewhere to the protest is completely specious.  You could just as easily say that Memorial Day get-togethers were to blame.  Meanwhile, there is lots of evidence that social distancing has been decreasing for months in the US.  Check out the graph below from Apple's mobility data: https://www.apple.com/covid19/mobility That is your explanation, not protests.

It's counterintuitive in the extreme to think they had no statistical effect.

But also to be considered is the effect on social discipline, undermining the regimen. If social distancing can be abandoned in this context, why not Party Hardy in others?