Originally posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Yeah you did. You disobeyed "correlation does not equal causation," the primary tenet of good research.
Nope, after I saw the correlation of large protests = large spikes I looked for the opposite. No protests = no spikes. Then I looked at science, average time from exposure to symptoms is 5-6 days. How virus is transmitted person to person. Looked at dates spikes started, looked at dates protests happened. Looked at dates Florida reopened, looked at new cases rates after that. Then I read what epidemiologist were saying about the dangers of large tightly packed groups in protests chanting and yelling loudly expels more virus. Looked at photos of large protests, saw how tightly packed they were.
The top 3 spikes in Florida have occurred in shoreline counties. Therefore, it's the people going to the beach causing the spikes.
Over 50% of Florida counties are on the shoreline. Only a few of them had spikes. Orange county is inland, it had a large spike. These facts blow that theory out of the water.
More than you might know, since you aren't a scientist, you're not doing any actual research, you're just doing some google headline searches and coming to conclusions based on someone else's version of a summary they found from a third or fourth party who might have worked with dozens of other people on the actual research.
Are you sure about this?
