So I think you are saying the large groups of people mingling for whatever reason increases the rate of the virus spreading?
Please explain why you think that reopening the economy is not dangerous when it seems you already professed to believe that allowing people to gather in large numbers has contributed to our largest counties having increased Covid positives? My opinion is your logic does not compute.

The US is #1, very Biggley little Piggley. And everybody knows, who to blame. Can you say, what is a DPA? Everybody knows, that Ca. is wearing masks. Everybody knows, it is the law. Everybody knows, that the mask works. That's how it goes, when everybody knows. Everybody knows, the war is over. Everybody knows the virus won! That's how it goes, everybody knows. If 60% of the people wore their masks 60% of the time the Virus would go away. That's how it goes, when Science knows.

What about churches? They are indoor. They just opened for business. Maybe your neighbor goes to church?? Who IS John Galt?

Good empathy-brings you in from the cold. Who IS John Galt?

Causation implies a SLOW START to becoming #!. Go Italy! Girl, at least YOU have Universal Health Care.

Those counties get a lot of TOURISTS. Also, they contain many ethnic groups that DO NOT have the luxury of another ethnic group that can work from home. Lots of variables. A little logic and empathy forces out the answer.

Good post, good opinion.

Smart man.Nice tan. That even rhymes.

Ok. I’ll have to think on that a bit, but I get what you’re saying.

Not just me, lots of epidemiologists are saying this. When you have people marching shoulder to shoulder, chanting and screaming, this is a recipe for contagion. In a packed protest march, you can have 9 people in a 6 foot by 6 foot square. Screaming and chanting loudly expels more virus from infected individuals.

The reopening rules in Florida are very specific, spacing of tables in restaurants, limited occupancy etc. Large groups, I think more than 10 are still prohibited. Maintain 6 foot social distancing etc etc. Somehow the large protests are exempt from all the rules.

I didn't just pull my theory out of thin air. I saw the headlines "Florida cases spiking" and wanted to find out where in Florida this was happening. I found that 70 percent of the new cases were coming from 7 counties. I saw that the big spikes started on June 12 and were in the same locations as the biggest protests. I also saw zero spikes in Counties like Sumter, which had no large protests. The Villages reopened May 4, why no spike in cases here or many other Florida counties?

Some new cases will happen, like the restaurant in Jacksonville that wasn't following guidelines. 16 people were infected, most likely from the 7 waiters and bartenders that were found to be positive and weren't wearing masks. Maybe the bartenders and waiters went to the protests in Jacksonville a week before.

It doesn't really matter if you think my logic doesn't compute. Perhaps you will take the time to research the data and come up with a better theory.

Irony reigns supreme in the camp of the Plague. We ARE # 1.

Yeah you did. You disobeyed "correlation does not equal causation," the primary tenet of good research.

Using your logic:

The top 3 spikes in Florida have occurred in shoreline counties. Therefore, it's the people going to the beach causing the spikes.


Do you see how that just really doesn't seem to make sense? That it feels flat, that this one thing can't possibly be the primary reason, there has to be more to it?

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.

Coming soon .....mandatory masks in FL mandated by Desantis.

Best post of the morning. Very intelligent, detailed, and informative. You go, Charleyo!

Wearing of masks, is a statement of SCIENCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!