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.

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@freemo what do you think about Floyd have 3 times the average lethal dosage of Fentanyl in his system, edemas lungs, and no burst petechiae? Pretty obvious based on all that that he died of an OD, not suffocation/strangulation. Because you clearly have a scientific mind I assume you're saying it's an injustice the way the other 100s of thousands of opioid deaths in the US are (especially with the Sackler family getting away with mass murder).

@VarnaNecropolis You'd be surprised how someone borderlining OD (of which many survive) are a hell of a lot quicker and more likely to die when you strangle them.

Thats like saying "Hey its cool your strangled that cancer patient with asthma to death, he was already on the verge of dying so you strangling him doesnt even count!"

Sorry doesnt work that way, if you strangle someone you've already failed regardless of any results that strangulation may have.

All that said, your "evidence" regarding drugs in his system at lethal doses has been debunked (he had drugs in his system, but not even approaching the levels you suggest in the lab reports).. but this is moot as the officer strangling someone is just as guilty if the person was of poor health or not, in fact **more** guilty for strangling someone who was near death if that were the case.

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@VarnaNecropolis and yes, every opioid death is an injustice in its own right, the fact that they didnt get the help they needed sooner if nothing else. But for very different reasons.. It is noth floyd's **death** that is the injustice, that is just the consequence. Its the fact that a police office strangled another human being, regardless of anything else.

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