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BLM spread caused Melbourne COVID-19 clusters

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Hardly surprising.... The multiplier effect would be much greater compared to the crowds seen in nightclubs of late.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-19-cluster-linked-Melbourne-second-wave.html

 
Factually that seems to be true to my understanding. So no argument there.

Pragmatic reality however is that being seen walking into the bush on a 45 degree day carrying a jerry can full of petrol in one hand and a box of matches in the other is going to arouse an awful lot of suspicion and even more so when someone notices the fire an hour later.

That scenario is essentially what's happened here. They may well be completely innocent but they're standing there with the box of matches and the fire raging behind them so it sure isn't a good look regardless of the facts.
 
You only have to google "photos of black lives matter Melbourne demonstration" to see how many weren't wearing masks.
That isn't to say it caused an outbreak, but it does show a lack of regard, to say it didn't matter is basically saying nothing matters.
I find it hard to reconcile, the media put Morison on the cross for being on holidays, when the bushfires were happening and it was a State issue.
But are relatively quiet when a deadly outbreak happens, due to a State Government mishandling.
Just my opinion, many others will think differently and I understand that.
That is the way life is these days and I apologize for any offence to anyone, none was intended.
 
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Wearing a mask wouldn't be effective in a crowd like in those protests.
All it takes is 1 sick person with a mediocre mask in that crowd and he will infect his neighbour. Not everyone wore masks anyway.

So a few out-breaths or a sneeze dispersing droplets up to 8m is enough to start a "bush fire" as you describe. Or just a few wondering hands or fingers. That's why distancing is so important.

And wearing a mask wouldn't protect the eyes, ears or other orifices of an innocent bystander. That would be like wearing a raincoat while swimming in the ocean and expecting not to get wet!
 
Well I don't know about protests, but last Thursday while entertaining 5 grandkids I took them to scitec, an absolute idiot on the next table was sneezing.
Well to cut a long story short, Monday I was in a queue at Fiona Stanley hospital getting a covid check, which proved negative, but today the grandson is in bed with the flu also.
You can't help fluckwits.
But they are entitled to be there.
 
Yep well times that by a factor of 100 fcukwits (or people who have no idea) in a massive crowd.
 
Professor Paul Kelly (acting Chief Medical Officer), on July 1st: "there is no evidence that there was - has been any spread from the Black Lives Matter protest."

https://www.health.gov.au/news/acting-chief-medical-officer-interview-on-1-july-2020-about-covid-19

From yesterday's Victoria Coronavirus update:

Cases currently linked to public housing in North Melbourne, Flemington and Carlton are as follows:

  • 250 cases are residents of various public housing towers in North Melbourne and Flemington. Investigations are continuing into how these cases are linked.
  • 41 cases are residents of various public housing towers in Carlton. Investigations are continuing into if and/or how these cases are linked.
Cases currently linked to key outbreaks are as follows:

  • 157 cases have been linked to Al-Taqwa College
  • 37 cases have been linked to Somerville Retail Services in Tottenham
  • 31 cases have been linked to Menarock Life Aged Care facility in Essendon
  • 29 cases have been linked to JBS abattoir in Brooklyn
  • 23 cases have been linked to Glendale Aged Care facility in Werribee
  • 21 cases have been linked to Estia Health aged care facility in Ardeer
  • 19 cases have been linked to the Northern Hospital
  • 16 cases have been linked to the Alfred Hospital
  • 16 cases have been linked to Brunswick Private Hospital
  • 15 cases have been linked to LaManna Supermarket Essendon
  • 6 cases have been linked to HWL Ebsworth Lawyers in Melbourne
  • 5 cases have been linked to St Basil’s Homes for the Aged in Fawkner
https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/coronavirus-update-victoria-thursday-16-july-2020
 
You make your comments without evidence.
Mask wearing in Tokyo's crowded subway system - over 8 million passenger journeys per day - has proven extremely effective. BLM protests pale into insignificance when compared to what has been happening day in, day out, for months in Chinese (over 10 million trips per day in Beijing alone) and Japanese subways.

However, as @IFocus's post above points out, the thread is fake news and serves only to amplify the poor journalism which gets syndicated to brainwash the braindead.
 
I don't need evidence. As someone pointed out to you, it's basic common sense; a mask isn't a guarantee. All your arguments are circular because of your incessant and unhelpful "evidence" comments.

A mediocre mask or a contaminated one would just make the situation worse anyway i.e. of potentially making infection more rampant. A mask won't protect eyes or ears either and won't stop a wandering touch contaminating surfaces or others.

Fake news or not, the protest crowds especially given the timing were illustrative enough of their detrimental nature.
 
If you have nothing other than your personal opinion to back up your comments, they really have no merit.
The BLM protester known to test positive wore a mask. No further infections are traceable to him.
If you wear a mask it is nearly impossible to spread droplets or produce an aerosol effect.
If your argument has legs then the AFL crowd last night at Optus stadium falls into the same camp as the BLM protests, except that we know a large number at BLM protests did wear masks.
 
I'm going to organise a gathering and demonstration of folks to protest the cash ban and bail in law's.

Let's see how the narrative changes then.
 
According to redrob's (et al) logic...

I'm going to go speeding through a school zone at 260 km per hour.

Nobody got killed so that's completely ok.

Dangerous? Could've killed somebody's 8 to girl?

FAKE NEWS!!!

Come on Robbie you apparently do seem to have a brain, try using it.
 
Those are you personal opinions too. So follow your own advice and shut it.

The so-called or so-determined BLM protestor got lucky or those around, even luckier.

Again wearing a mask is no guarantee. Infected people are made to ISOLATE themselves just like those massive numbers are now in Victoria!

Those Infected are not encourage to go out into crowds to spread their illnesses. Again, they are told or made to isolate like those in the towers of Victoria. Else they would be wandering among us.
 
Red rob's thinking is all or nothing. He thinks it all starts and ends with a mask.
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External links showing your personal opinions lack merit have nothing to do with what I think.
You seem to have overlooked the basic fact that we know that asymptomatic spread occurs.
Try following your logic to justify large crowds now be allowed at sporting events.
 
Your strawman arguments are not helpful.
 
Back at you: external links showing your personal opinions lack merit have nothing to do with what I think.
The timing of them taking place. There were no crowds permitted at sporting events back during the initial lockdown. The protestign BLM crowds didn't have the same protocols in place as those for the sporting events.

They wouldn't be justified in Victoria at this time. That's why teams and their families are migrating to Queensland. Maybe we will revert back to another lockdown or a level-4 one, mask-wearing and all.
 
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