72 attendees of Wisconsin protest have tested positive for COVID 19

[Gothmog]

Karma works

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[Doodley]

1. Idiots.

[Orrex]

2. You mean they've tested positive for a hoax?!?

Current research suggests that they'll hasten their recovery if they wipe their asses with that stupid Confederate participation trophy that they worship.

If they don't abandon their idiocy after this, then fuck them. I'm sorry for their family members, but mostly because I'm sorry that their family members are related to a proudly stupid shithead who went out of his way to contract a potentially lethal infection.

[BComplex]

5. That was, actually, a great post!

My sentiments, exactly!

I hope they have a really complete case of the virus. Then they can go tell everyone how "it's just like the flu"!

[Thekaspervote]

11. Nailed it!!

[Maru Kitteh]

56. They BETTER NOT call 911 when the hoax makes it too hard to breathe or they can't

get their fever down from 104.1 for three days. Fuck that shit. They don't DESERVE the scant and precious resources of their community meant to provide for the healing of those who contracted this hoax without fault. They sure as fuck don't deserve the care and attention of a single nurse or any HCW.

If I found out my patient had contracted COVID by protesting against my safety, you can be sure they would receive from the the standard of care required by my licence and NOT ONE LITTLE BIT MORE.

[Blue_true]

60. Yeah. I want every single one of those assholes that got infected

to be looking into death's living room before medical workers pull them back. Maybe after that they will acquire some realistic perspectives about life.

[malaise]

39. Ditto

[BSdetect]

43. And its a Chinese hoax. The worst type it seems.

[Blue_true]

59. Honestly, I hope every one that gets infected suffer to the max but survive.

Maybe that will slap some stupid out of them.

[Blue_true]

68. I see your point, but often those that suffer from something they took lightly become

the biggest crusaders against it.

When those people no longer can walk 50 yards without being out of breath, hopefully that turns on a light in their heads and they warn others against doing what they did.

[Cha]

3. Omg.. If I were an idiot I would be so

******* scared and Embarrassed.. and pissed at myself

[BComplex]

6. These people don't know enough to be embarrassed.

They should, but they don't!

[Jamastiene]

17. Exactly. They are extremely proud of being willfully stubborn.

That is all they are doing. It sums up their behavior perfectly. They are being as stubborn as they can be, just for the sake of bring stubborn, and standing in an echo chamber with others who think the same way. They pat each other on the back for being stubborn, but who is proudest of being stubborn becomes a "one-upsmanship" type situation. Then, they vie for the title of being most stubborn and most proud of their stubbornness.

No matter how stupid the stance they take is, they stick to it and are proud of sticking to it. That is their goal and their favorite thing to do in life. "Sticking it to the libs."

[BigmanPigman]

18. Good description of their attitude.

[llmart]

66. I think they're not so much stubborn as immature.

Maybe they can be both at the same time and add in ignorant and selfish.

There may be 72 so far, but I guarantee you there'll be more. Hope everyone that was there gets it.

[Jamastiene]

75. I do too.

Cooper has opened NC as well now. So, even Democratic governors are now caving to those terrorists. This is going to be horrid. I hope I can find a way to get groceries online enough to survive. I wish I could get hot dog buns online without it being so expensive. I do have some of my vegan hot dog chili coming.

I don't need the hot dog weenies themselves. Ketchup and the chili carried me through homelessness when I could scrape enough together to buy the chili and buns. The rest of the time, it was Hardee's ketchup packets made into soup and crackers from Wendy's. If you were quick about it and didn't take too much from each store's supplies inside, you could manage ketchup soup the rest of the time.

Things are going to get dire for those of us in red states trying to survive. I might end up taking up fishing again, but that is mercury poisoning from the leftover hazardous waste from textiles mills and whatever it keeping the mercury levels high nowadays too. So, I could only eat fish once in a while without permanently damaging my health anyhow.

[Blue_true]

62. No. They will blame "democrats" for making them show up.

I am still trying to figure out what guns and the confederate flag have to do with getting back to work.

[msongs]

4. taking one for the team. how admirable nt

[33taw]

7. Why are they being tested? They should relinquish their right to medical care

[BigmanPigman]

19. If I were a nurse I would not want to treat one of these guys.

[BGBD]

8. I built an R based model

a could weeks ago that said if 1% of the population was infected, an event with 200 had about a 6 in 7 chance of having atleast one infected person there and it could be as high as 9 infected people. So, it's not a shock that many people were infected at a large rally where little precaution was being taken, however, I doubt 72 people were infected directly at the rally.

Instead we have to figure that being at the rally makes you much more likely to disregard social distancing guidelines as well as take less overall precaution to protect yourself from the virus. That tracks if you are willing to put yourself into that kind of risk. So, I think anyone at the rally is at a much higher than average risk of contracting the virus in their day to day life. We should expect that rally attendees will have a higher rate of infection than an equally sized group take at random.

Let me also note that in the model I ran a 5% rate of infection in the population as well, and that was off the charts bad. Basically it was nearly assured that an infection would be present and there could be as many as ~25 (I can't recall the exact number but it was close to mid 20s). In that case 72 infections at the rally would be more possible.

I'm assuming that all 72 infections are symptomatic and that's how they were found. If that's the case there would be many, many more asymptomatic cases stemming from it was well.

[druidity33]

53. Super-spreader?

My understanding is that ONE person in the right position may have been able to infect damn near the whole crowd. Did they have to walk through a tunnel to get onsite? Was there someone checking people in? Did they share an elevator or car-ride or joints?

[BGBD]

58. It's possible

I don't know how to include idiots in my model, I'm not that good yet. I heard stories about people offering free hugs and stuff, if one of them were infected they would have really moved it through the group.

[Blue_true]

64. Sound points.

It is a good guess that anyone at that rally felt that taking precautions against SAR-COV-2 was a waste of their time. So if they didn't get infected at the rally, they got infected being careless elsewhere.

[BComplex]

73. Dontcha love a statistician?

[iemitsu]

9. And those are just the ones, who have admitted to attending a large gathering.

There are 1500 new cases in Wisconsin since that rally.

[33taw]

37. WI also had a large rate of infection in Green Bay because of meat plants.

[RandySF]

10. I just hope they didn't infect anyone else.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Given the way this virus is, and the attendees' attitudes, I'd say that's a forlorn hope.

[rpannier]

28. Can always hope they only infected like-minded morons

[Blue_true]

65. They likely infected other people. Those were not the type to wear masks

to avoid spreading the virus.

[Midnight Writer]

12. If they survive it, they'll have bragging rights. They don't care about anyone else.

[Blue_true]

69. Not if they are breathless after walking 50 yards, or wheelchair bound.

Based upon statistics, 3 of them will likely die, 36 won't notice much and 33 will have illness from mild to severe but short of death.

[clutterbox1830]

14. Good. I assume there are more.

Sorry these people don't deserve your sympathy. Unfortunately, these ppl interact with non protestors, but these ppl won't learn their lesson and will continuously place other ppl health in jeopardy.

[muntrv]

15. Culling the herd.

[TalenaGor]

16. when do the bleach injections begin?

[MoonlitKnight]

20. How did they get tested?

There had to be some realization that they screwed up and caught the hoax in order to seek out a test. Or they were in bad shape and pretty much had to be tested.

[BComplex]

74. I believe the whole crowd was financed by the Amway family (DeVos) and the remaining Koch

(Charles) brother. So I'm sure there's plenty of $$ to go around. These were not spontaneous, grass-roots rallies.

[Demovictory9]

21. idiots

[tclambert]

22. Do you mean to say there are actually consequences for doing stupid stuff?

That can't be right.

[smirkymonkey]

23. Oh, so sad!

It would be a shame if any of them died from it. Or any of their family members.

[peggysue2]

24. Karma, Baby

For all those bad boys with their long guns, the shrieking women with their smutty mouths, Karma's come to get you. She doesn't care about your Trump-love, your whack-a-doodle interpretation of the US Constitution or your adolescent need with the my-way-or-the-highway attitude.

She simply does her thing and this time she has a tiny, relentless helper: the Covid-19 virus.

Don't say you weren't warned. Because you were about a thousand times over. You laughed and jeered at the rest of us wearing our masks and gloves, trying to make the best of a bad situation.

Karma is a bitch, no doubt about it. And she's come to get you good.

[Captain Zero]

25. I suppose they can change their protest signs to:

OPEN THE ICUs !!!

[Marcuse]

26. "150mg Clorox IM Stat!"

[emmaverybo]

34. Funny. Hoping that and megadoses of the anti-malarial, the one with killer side effects will be the

protocol used for Trump and Pence.

[rpannier]

27. They're still alive?

Unfortunate
Hopefully they didn't infect the non-stupid people in the state

[Brother Buzz]

29. I didn't see that one coming

[PatrickforO]

30. I know I should not but I just cannot resist a chuckle.

What is that John Lennon said? Instant Karma's gonna get you?

[quakerboy]

31. "huge"

Im not a crowd counting expert, but that would appear to be 15-20% of the total.

They went there as conspirators to murder. Possibly they didn't realize that, like shooting straight up into the air, it was themselves they might hit in their incompetence.

Also.. How is it we have plenty of tests for these maroons, daily tests for whitehouse folk, But not enough for the senate?

[Totally Tunsie]

32. 72 and counting, that is.

72...75...90...200...500...2,000, yada yada yada

[Rhiannon12866]

33. Twitter reply :

Link to tweet

[Hav]

35. One would hope that this gives them something to think about

I assume it's way more likely that those got tested because they showed symptoms. There could be many more without symptoms and who are still carriers, happily infecting others and who therefore prolong this pandemic.

I'd say if they realize how they brought this disease to their relatives and friends, maybe with severe consequences, they'd reconsider their behavior. There is a chance that some of them caused people dying but we all know these type of people. They are the ones who said freedom or death and considering their lack of empathy, they probably won't regret what they did.

[pwb]

47. Like changing the news station?

.

[uponit7771]

36. K&R, those are just the ones willing to admit it

[Celerity]

38. Not surprised. Rump's next rally will top that. Die for Rump they will.

[The Magistrate]

40. Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes

Puts a shine on the day, Sir....

[beachbumbob]

41. like I been saying, Karma can solve this situation

[forthemiddle]

42. This isn't exactly true

The 72 that tested positive were not asked if they attended the rally, and the Wisconsin Health Department says they cannot be linked to the rally. When the patients are tested, they are asked if they attended “any large events”, and 72 said yes.

That did not specifically say what the large event was, nor does it quantify what someone might think is a large event. So to say 72 people that went to the rally got Covid isn’t accurate.

https://www.channel3000.com/72-got-covid-19-after-being-at-large-event/

[Blue_true]

71. What other "large" events were happening at that time?

People that attended "large" events either stupidly went to a party, or went to the protest or meetings about the protest. At any rate, they were foolishly not following advice from medical experts.

[former9thward]

44. Did you read the link?

The story says there is no evidence they were at the rally. They were not asked about that event.

[LanternWaste]

51. Says the guy who told us...

"The main function of the masks for non medical people is to keep people from touching their faces."

[former9thward]

55. No, the story at the link says that.

Which you obviously did not read.

But since you bring up masks the World Health Organization and experts say that. Of course many wish to ignore them and instead rely on anonymous internet posters...

“Wearing a mask can also reduce the propensity for people to touch their faces, which happens many more times a day than we all realise and is a major source of infection without proper hand hygiene,” said Stephen Griffin, an associate professor at Leeds University’s Institute of Medical Research.

The World Health Organization’s advice is that if you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if:

** you are caring for someone with suspected or confirmed COVID**19 infection

** you are coughing or sneezing yourself, or suspect you might have COVID**19.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-facemasks-explaine/explainer-who-should-wear-a-face-mask-and-do-they-stop-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN21C2PT

[tanyev]

45. You asked for it, you got it--Corona.

[Gothmog]

46. This may be the first civil war in history where the rebels killed themselves

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[Generic Brad]

48. Who knew they were the weak and expendable?

Thank you for your service, COVID warriors. You willingly offered up your life to make the world a better place. It's just too bad we only had two weeks to marvel at the magnificence of your fresh haircuts.

[uncle ray]

49. that's not what the article, or tweet says.

let's not invent our our alternate facts.

[Paladin]

50. Tough shit.

Not.

[Blue Owl]

52. Wimpity Wampity WOMP

n/t

[RainCaster]

54. 72 more gays in the GOP now

The virus has changed their minds.

[GeorgiaPeanut]

57. It is called poetic justice

[Roland99]

61. That seems like a LARGE % of them. Does that mean it spreads more easily outdoors??

[Blue_true]

72. I think scientists have already determined that it spreads faster in

smallish indoor spaces. My guess is those people met at homes or small meeting places before and likely after the rally. In a situation like that, only 1 infected person initially would have ended up infecting a large amount of people via secondary and tertiary transmissions. At one time, it was believe that 3 people started the transmission of the virus in NYC, but due to it being NYC, my guess is there were a lot more initially infected people setting things off there.

[lpbk2713]

67. That's a damn shame.

[GulfCoast66]

70. Sorry. This is fake. Did anyone read the article?

Read it. All we know is these people attended a large gathering. The election was included in that event.

There is absolutely no evidence tying the protest into the new cases.

While I have no doubt the protest did spread the virus, DU is a fact based site. Not rumor or desire based site. Which is why I have a DU membership but not a Facebook membership.