[Farm93]

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

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

Allsides.com rates Commentary Magazine as its lowest level confidence rating and its furthest available level to the right. https://www.allsides.com/news-source/com...media-bias

It's easy to offer something with no comment when the comment(ary) is built into the piece. Nothing wrong with sharing op-eds, but doing so is generally a tacit endorsement in the absence of appended commentary to the contrary. 

If we settled on the notion that the protests no doubt had some non-zero contribution to the surge, but were not a chief driver, would many take issue with such an assessment? From everything I've read, I am more worried about crowded indoor restaurants and bars than outdoor protests, clambakes, or any other large social gatherings where facemasks are worn... Sure, every large outdoor gathering with masks poses a risk, but my view is any form of outdoor, mask-wearing activity is substantially safer than anything indoor and without masks. 

...But I realize the algorithms don't like that take, because it doesn't tend to inflame. :P

As the USA lacks the tracing capabilities that are common in other countries we will never know which activities were most responsible for the recent surge.  (Memorial Day Activities, Black Lives Matter, Opening of Restaurants and Bars, or resumption of indoor scale church activities or other)

Probably safe to say, based on experiences in other countries, that any one of those items could have been significant enough to start us back up the curve.  Ultimately they all happened AND we don't have tracing at the level needed, so back to SIP for us.

[Farm93]

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

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

Allsides.com rates Commentary Magazine as its lowest level confidence rating and its furthest available level to the right. https://www.allsides.com/news-source/com...media-bias

It's easy to offer something with no comment when the comment(ary) is built into the piece. Nothing wrong with sharing op-eds, but doing so is generally a tacit endorsement in the absence of appended commentary to the contrary. 

If we settled on the notion that the protests no doubt had some non-zero contribution to the surge, but were not a chief driver, would many take issue with such an assessment? From everything I've read, I am more worried about crowded indoor restaurants and bars than outdoor protests, clambakes, or any other large social gatherings where facemasks are worn... Sure, every large outdoor gathering with masks poses a risk, but my view is any form of outdoor, mask-wearing activity is substantially safer than anything indoor and without masks. 

...But I realize the algorithms don't like that take, because it doesn't tend to inflame. :P

As the USA lacks the tracing capabilities that are common in other countries we will never know which activities were most responsible for the recent surge.  (Memorial Day Activities, Black Lives Matter, Opening of Restaurants and Bars, or resumption of indoor scale church activities or other)

Probably safe to say, based on experiences in other countries, that any one of those items could have been significant enough to start us back up the curve.  Ultimately they all happened AND we don't have tracing at the level needed, so back to SIP for us.