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Just wanted to share a little chart showing the likely effect of the mass BLM protests over George floyd compared to the COVID-19 recorded new cases count.
To be clear, I think Floyd's death was an injustice and I support the idea of opposing it at every level. But it was the number one biggest factor that caused the COVID epidemic to resurge out of control and we never recovered from the surge seen during the protest and even now this new surge we are seeing is partially fueled by the effects of those protests.
The irony here is the left have been the most vocal about COVID and blamed Trump for not seeing enough success in battling it as a central point in their entire presidential debate... yet they are also the ones who caused more loss of life and a more prolific spread of the diseases than anyone else when it served their agenda, and had the gall to try to blame that on Trump or republicans.
After seeing months of liberals abusing old ladies grocery shopping without a mask on and the like it is pretty disgusting, though typical, to see they are also the ones who caused more a problem than anyone else.
Yup, it was an injustice, and expressing that in ways that doesnt kill large numbers of people are great... doesnt excuse the way most people responded however during a pandemic. I said it at the time as well. A hell of a lot of people died because people decided to ignore the life and safety of others in how they expressed their right to protest that injustice. There were better ways to do it.
What about it? I dont approve of that public gather either, or the inaugration, or many other public gatherings.
The main difference however is by comparison to the Floyd protests they were much smaller and short lived. So while they were still uncalled for, their effects were minimal compared to the death that resulted from the floyd protests.
Because their effects were far more minimal it also means that doing any analysis to actually prove out and quantify the death toll that resulted would be much more difficult (and thus I cant make a similar post showing that, or else I might have).
