Are you now claiming that outdoor BLM protests don't spread COVID?
You know... despite all the health warnings from cities to get tested after COVID spread across people present at these events in the Carolinas.
It's extremely difficult to document "Outdoor Covid Spread" and most likely it can only be done in a country that has excellent contact tracing and/or using volunteers for a research study involving outdoor gatherings...no face mask wearing.
China has a documented case and a few other countries have unverified cases of outdoor Covid spread from an infected individual to another individual. Yet, when I say unverified, I'm referring to the contact tracing was very poor (e.g.
Rose Garden Event at the White House)...many of those infected individuals had been indoors together
before going outdoors to the Rose Garden and then again indoors
after being outdoors in the Rose Garden.
- It's impossible to determine if the Covid spread was via indoors or outdoors.
The rare (few) documented cases in other countries...they don't know if the spread occurred because the person acquired Covid via breathing the aerosol droplets of Covid or if the Covid droplets were on a surface that was touched by the person that became infected while outdoors. Example of the latter...an infected person with Covid...
coughs or sneezes in their hand and then minutes later shakes hand with another individual outdoor...such as seeing a friend at an outdoor gathering.
The above is an example of why its extremely difficult to document outdoor Covid spread because these individuals eventually go back indoors and then later if / when they become ill days later...its assume the Covid spread had occurred indoors.
The key is contact tracing that's
not very good in most countries (e.g. United States and Canada). Therefore, as it currently stands...Covid spread is outdoors is rare but that does not imply its impossible.
- I'm not talking about Covid spread via surfaces (e.g. doorknob, kitchen countertop).
I'm talking about a
heavy concentrated viral load via a cough
or sneeze that has not been prevented by a wearing a face mask. This is why people should always carry a small bottle of Hand Sanitizer with them especially when hanging outdoor with those they're familiar with because of the tendency to shakes hands or touch/rub their eyes with their hands...the latter a seldom discussed route for Covid.
Simply, Covid spread outdoors is rare but it can happen via a heavy concentrated viral load. Then when such happens...its extremely difficult that the person infected occurred outdoors can be contact traced to someone outdoors especially if the person is unfamiliar.
With all that said above...
keep in mind that Covid is still new. What we know about it today...we'll know a lot more about it by end of year plus there will have been more research done.
For example, there's research studies in real outdoor gathering to determine if / when / how Covid is spread outdoors...currently ongoing today. A few have already occurred too.
Also, involving another research study...I saw a video on a Sweden website talking about a recent concert this past weekend
or coming up this weekend about a similar research to test the merits of
Outdoor Covid Spread with volunteers whom will
not be wearing face masks.
Yet, I can't remember if the study will be in Sweden
or if Sweden was talking about a study in another country. Apparently a few Covid infected people will be sent into the concert but they are not sick and all the other volunteers will then be quarantine just in case they do become infected.
I'm very surprise these types of studies are not more frequent in Outdoor testing situations...example at barbecues, outdoor dining, teenagers hanging out in a parking lot, kids playing with each other in someone's backyard, gatherings at a beach and so on.
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