@jeffcliff I just noticed you essentially ignored a part of the covid transmission risks in the thing about blm.

Rallying to protest might have transmission risks, staying alone has a much worse risk: incarceration. That's indoors and prisons are notorious virus redistribution centers.

So for a realistic view, one needs to consider any pushback against unnecessary incarceration as a reduction of transmission risk. Shutting up and taking it is making mass incarceration easier and long-term motivates those responsible to continue - it's an industry!