110,000 deaths so far from Covid-19 in the US, nearly twice as many Americans as were killed in Vietnam. But the numbers of deaths down below a thousand daily:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-coronavirus-national&variant=show&region=TOP_BANNER&context=storylines_menu

So, as restrictions are lifted prematurely in the US (as in the UK), we can expect the daily case-load to increase - it seems that there are now more US states where the daily case-load is rising than in states where it is falling. So in, say, two weeks, the number of deaths may start to rise again, both in the cities where the protests have been held and in the more outlying areas too.

We're a long way yet from the end of the tunnel.

Joe

mhaze,

I don't make stuff up.

I present facts that unfortunately don't
agree with your viewpoint.

Your problem not mine.

Don't blame your own flaws on others.

LOUDmouth

You said "Democracies need protests with order :)"

Have you stopped to think that there is a difference between a protest and a riot and what we are witnessing in the US is both instead of being just two sides of the same coin albeit the raison d'être is common to both. You should think before you open your LOUD mouth.

"I don't make stuff up."

Well we can all see that you did.

And now you're making stuff up about not making stuff up.

"Sociopaths never answer to facts"
Well at least you get some things right.

"So we haven't seen much looting lately, or fires, etc."

Maybe that's because all the good stuff has already been stolen....

http://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8cab5594aa338fb41b98268185d6755de9c50ab5ecf36ffd4d1fa4298f80f100.jpg

Or maybe its because the media you watch has worked out this is all helping to re-elect Trump and the self-censorship has kicked in.

Misopinionated,

Half-wit. Yes, democracies need to protect the right to protest, but organisers of protests need to ensure that provocateurs, criminals, looters, anarchists and general dumb-arses don't disrupt and deflect the protest away from its purpose.

That's the aim: to protest without provoking yet more police brutality or the military being called out: i.e., do it right, don't harm the people. I'm certainly not saying that it happens automatically, as I'm sure that anybody else with a grain of sense realises. Get a small child to explain it to you.

Joe