Nadine Silva: Still no Covid19 cases traced to BLM mass rallies held over two weeks ago

Nadine Silva writes that Still no Covid19 cases traced to BLM mass rallies held over two weeks ago.

However, Health officials across the country are yet to trace a single coronavirus case to the Black Lives Matter protests that took place over 14 days ago.

This morning [22 June 2020], CMO Brendan Murphy told ABC News that the experts did not believe the rallies were directly responsible for any new cases.

“Whilst three of the protesters in Victoria did test positive, we don’t think they transmitted or got it at the protest,” he said.

The absence of positive transmissions from the BLM rallies led to Arrernte writer, Celeste Liddle, on Sunday night tweeting at the media and asking if it planned to report on it as actively as the unfounded concerns about new outbreaks potentially resulting from the protests.

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My own theory on this has the following points:

• The rallies were held outside. The current research indicates the transmission of SARS-COV-2 virus outside in the open air is far less than inside buildings.
• The participants were probably following hygiene guidelines. This would have reduced the incidence of the virus among this population.

The people who took part in these rallies are motivated by a social conscience. Having a social conscience would mean that the hygiene guidelines were followed closely. Thus, there were fewer cases among the participants. Since the rallies were held out in the open, any transmission were greatly inhibited.

The focus on virus transmission by the media is meant to suppress these rallies. Delaying these rallies will derail this mass movement.