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According to Director Mike Ryan, researchers now
know that the COVID can be spread by people who show
no symptoms of it. In fact, it was reported that George
Floyd’s remains tested positive for the coronavirus
during his autopsy.
In the interest of abundance of caution, individuals
are advised to either “quarantine or get tested after
attending a mass gathering,” Ryan said. Nationally, Local
officials expressed similar concerns about the connection
between the protests and the pandemic.

Bill Miller, an epidemiologist and physician at Ohio
State University said, “Testing everyone that participated
in demonstrations would be useful in communities where
many new cases are being reported every day. These new
cases indicate that transmission is occurring at a high rate
in the communities.”

Miller said an alternative to testing everyone would
be to retrace your contact interactions. “With new cases,
the tracers could ask about demonstration participation,
including days and times,” Miller said. Then, if cases
are linked to a demonstration, a call could go out to get
everyone who participated in that event to be tested.”
Apparently, the outdoors may reduce the risk
of COVID exposure. The two (2) reasons given are, the
virus cannot exist long in sunlight. And, secondly, the
outdoors provides better air circulation for warding off
the coronavirus. But, there is no real guarantee that
being outdoors will protect an individual against any
infectious disease.

Freedom Comes At A Price—
The price of freedom, respect and human rights
around the world has never come cheap. It has always
come at a high price. Often the price has been ultimate.