From Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson:
Will Flanders, the research director for the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, is questioning a study claiming Black Lives Matters protests are not contributing to the spread of the Coronavirus.
“It purports to show that the protests in America’s streets have had no impact on infection rates across more than 300 cities,” Flanders wrote in an op-ed for The Hill. “The ostensible mechanism for this lack of case growth is that the protests led other people to socially distance more. By itself, this puts an asterisk on the findings. If fear or aversion to the protests led people to stay home, this doesn’t actually mean that crowding together in demonstrations didn’t spread the virus, only that countervailing decisions mitigated the harm that might have been caused.”