Thousands of people are walking together on the streets
While millions of people are home because the government shutdown their business. This is deeply unfair. Protesters are right to protest police violence. If peaceful, they are in the right. Good for them. But the violence is perpetrated by the government, not just the police. Locking down millions of people from their livelihood is an abuse of power. It's criminal. And the fact that some people can freely walk together outside, while the rest has to be locked down inside, is profoundly unjust. Government is the abuser. Police is just an enforcement arm of the abuser. Profoundly violent, I agree.
Millions of these business owners and workers that lost their jobs are from minorities. So if race defines your worldview, you should feel sympathetic. But honestly I'm not a minority and I kept my job. I'm the lucky one. Still this situation is unfair. Wife and kid at home, daycare closed, working full time, trying to keep it together. For what? This is ridiculous. For everybody. We should all be outside. There can't be a different set of rules for us and for them. It's just unfair #lockdown #netflix #quarantine
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In this, like all discussions on Blind, I see the urge for simple answers but this is a complex layered issue.
Having said all that, yes, absolutely, mass gatherings endanger public health and can end up causing thousands of deaths.
Once an expotential spread starts, there's no going back.
People are outside not because there's nothing to fear. Protestors are out because there's great wrong in the country and cannot keep silent.
Mortality rate on covid-19 is actually higher than expected. And this is BEFORE the expotential spread. If this bug actually get around to spread unchecked, you aint gonna say they are more likely to die from violence.