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Its counterintuitive to believe that large gathering of people in close proximity for long periods of time, many who were shouting, is not a contributing factor.  And frankly, any study on this is, imo, is likely to be skewed by politics.  Either way.

Their point was that the “large gathering of people in close proximity for long periods of time” kept an even larger group of people from going outside, and in so doing the net effect was less viral transmission.  Again, I’m not sure I buy it, but the argument is not that that the protests didn’t facilitate transmission among people who were protesting, but rather that this effect was outweighed by the effect on people who didn’t participate in the protests and stayed home as a result.  Based on surveys, fewer than 1% of people participated in protests, and that is much less than the number of people who would have been venturing out electively for other activities.

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Its counterintuitive to believe that large gathering of people in close proximity for long periods of time, many who were shouting, is not a contributing factor.  And frankly, any study on this is, imo, is likely to be skewed by politics.  Either way.

Their point was that the “large gathering of people in close proximity for long periods of time” kept an even larger group of people from going outside, and in so doing the net effect was less viral transmission.  Again, I’m not sure I buy it, but the argument is not that that the protests didn’t facilitate transmission among people who were protesting, but rather that this effect was outweighed by the effect on people who didn’t participate in the protests and stayed home as a result.  Based on surveys, fewer than 1% of people participated in protests, and that is much less than the number of people who would have been venturing out electively for other activities.

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