CV and mad panic behaviour

[Mav]

Almost 1800 people got covid yesterday, over 99% of them had nothing to do with protests.

More chance of getting the disease from your local Coles or Woolies than walking around the city holding a sign.

Where does that percentage come from? Is it your assumption?

By the way, that’s what a superspreader event is: people present become infected and then they spread it to their family and friends and then that widening group infects strangers in Coles or Woolies. If the protesters went for tests on the way home and isolated until they received a negative test, there wouldn’t be much of an issue. But what do you think the chances are that they did that: not 99%, I bet.

And how many of the protesters were quietly walking around the city holding signs? You’ve no doubt seen the footage showing almost entirely unmasked people packed in as tightly as in a mosh pit at a rock concert shouting in close proximity to others. I might be making a rash assumption here, but I’m assuming they weren’t vaccinated either. If only high definition slow-motion cameras had zoomed in on those events, maybe they could have documented a miasma of spittle floating above the protesters and might even have tracked some droplets on the way to their destinations, à la Contagion or Outbreak.

But the kicker is that it isn’t necessary to show that new infections emanated solely from the protests. What we need is to reduce the growth of Covid. If we hadn’t had these protests, the new case numbers would be lower. And that’s not an assumption.