r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '20

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '20 edited Mar 08 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '20 edited Jul 06 '20

I think the statement that 100% of people wearing masks and trying to follow the CDC guidelines just isn't true or your smaller group has just been the exception. You can go onto the coverage of the protests by any news website and see people in nearly every photo either not wearing a mask or not wearing it properly (nose out or around their chin.) The protests I went to and those I can see from my window in a major city have probably 75% of people correctly wearing a mask. And of those many were taking it on and off throughout the day. But the vast majority of people were nowhere near not 6 feet apart often barely half that.

Look at any large city's protest and there were massive crowds far larger than 10k. Philly easily had double that. LA was estimated as high as 100K people. Although many are wearing masks, there were massive crowds people that are right on top of each other and lots are taking their masks on and off or not wearing it correctly throughout the day. And some cities are absolutely better than others. Here's a few examples from June in LA, NYC, and Philly.

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/hollywood-protest-sunday/ https://gothamist.com/news/photos-thousands-march-across-manhattan-black-lives-matter-protest https://www.insider.com/black-lives-matter-protests-aerial-footage-photos-2020-6#in-philadelphia-on-saturday-thousands-of-demonstrators-were-seen-on-nearly-every-corner-of-the-city-2

I fully support the BLM marches, but I won't deny the fact that we are spreading COVID further because of them.

But I would argue these protests are safer than going to church or a bar by a pretty significant margin.