Originally Posted by MarkM
Originally Posted by jcc

So what behavior exactly in your eyes spread COVID then pre rioting?

Are you thusly implying, if there is no outbreak in two weeks, COVID has flown the coop?


He is not denying close proximity spreads the virus. What the rioting and opening process is going to tell us in two to three weeks is just how far it has spread through the population asymptomatically already. Maybe we've reached a level of herd immunity that keeps it in check. Maybe the warming weather will also have an affect in keeping numbers down. Or maybe we'll have another outbreak. Either way, we're going to find out soon.


I think the flaw in this theory is that it appears that many of the rioters (at least in Minnesota) are from out of state, and will likely have returned back to their home states within a week or so, since the number of guardsmen to defend the cities are increasing greatly.

So, it will be difficult to contact trace, except for those who have been/will be arrested. Perhaps somebody should be compiling stats on the arrested rioters to determine the percentage of those who test positive for COVID-19 in the next two weeks...