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This article suggested that there was an inverse correlation between the protests and COVID-19 outbreaks. Moreover, it suggests that because of the protests, other people stayed home, so it actually served as a breaker on the worsening of the outbreak.

I’m not sure I buy it, but an NbER paper is cited.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail...d-19-cases

BC

BC, don't your facts get in the way of your partisan talking points. 

Thanks for sharing this. I only experienced the protests firsthand in SF (and not as an intentional protestor but as an inadvertent attendee as I whizzed by a converging mass of protesters while cycling), and I was really impressed by how probably 95% of the people I saw had masks on and were making at least a marginal effort to social distance beyond the people they had come with.  Then again, SF has been really good on mask compliance in general, so this may have more to do with the SF than with the protests...

[2006alum]

This article suggested that there was an inverse correlation between the protests and COVID-19 outbreaks. Moreover, it suggests that because of the protests, other people stayed home, so it actually served as a breaker on the worsening of the outbreak.

I’m not sure I buy it, but an NbER paper is cited.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail...d-19-cases

BC

BC, don't your facts get in the way of your partisan talking points. 

Thanks for sharing this. I only experienced the protests firsthand in SF (and not as an intentional protestor but as an inadvertent attendee as I whizzed by a converging mass of protesters while cycling), and I was really impressed by how probably 95% of the people I saw had masks on and were making at least a marginal effort to social distance beyond the people they had come with.  Then again, SF has been really good on mask compliance in general, so this may have more to do with the SF than with the protests...