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by teachrdan 2083 days ago
Cities with large protests did not suffer from increased rates of COVID--see New York City, for example. Cities with lower rates of mask usage did experience high rates of COVID infection--see Phoenix, Arizona.

A percentage of HNers will say "Correlation is not causation." But the history of places like NYC and San Francisco that had huge demonstrations against police brutality without increased rates of transmission disproves "the second wave in the US due to mass nationwide protests."