Charlie: There was a big decline in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in NYC after the BLM rallies.
Syag: Had no more serious a spread than other minyanim.
you_all guys need to start asking shaylos from your local Rabbis/PhD….
Charlee – Indeed. There is a paper analyzing this. Mobility data explained what happened: rallies scared most other people from going to downtown and going out in general.
A similar effect might happened in Syag’s shul: vulnerable people were coming less to maskless minyanim, and more to masked ones. Also, if you are saying multiple (more than 4) people getting it at the same time, it means “masked” minyanim were not really taking full measures correctly, such as closed windows; ventilation that does not have filters and goes into their faces; prolonged davening; flimsy non-medical masks bouncing on the nose; exempting chazan; reading Torah close together, etc. We discussed this here at length early on, too bad you didn’t digest this info to them.