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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Perhaps everyone here has heard of what happened at the tragic Astroworld event.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=625 height=122 style='width:6.5104in;height:1.2708in' id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D7D3BA.DC662B20"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From the point of view of a medical experiment, this event really has it all: huge crowd, no masks, in Texas which doesn’t allow vaccination mandates, good traceability, huge numbers of participants, and as an added bonus, the participants are willing test subjects.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We debated long over whether outdoor events are super-spreaders of covid. I saw no convincing evidence they are super-spreaders. Now we have a crowd way more densely packed than a stadium event, so tightly packed that people were being crushed to death. They were raving, so that would be at least the equivalent of cheering for the home team only moreso: raving should be more spready than cheering, because one’s own team only has the ball part of the time, but the rap stars are up there the whole time. Lots of body-to-body contact here (which is presumably spreadier than any stadium sports event) plenty of people there who were presumably healthy when they arrived. Skerjillions of data points, all voluntary lab rats, sheesh this event has it all.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now… we get to see: are outdoor events superspreaders?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Speculations please?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It durn sure looks like they aughta be. If this isn’t a super spreader, I am puzzled. If this turns out to not spread a lotta covid, I am ready to declare outdoor crowd events as generally safe. Well, you might be trampled or crushed to death of course. But other than that…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ideas?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>