Baseball isn't fully outdoors. The riskiest point at the stadiums would be the gift shops, hall of fame, etc and Kauffman has had mask requirements inside these spaces.phuqueue wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:11 pm I mean, kull seems to be whining about perceived shaming/fearmongering, which did happen last year around the Ozarks party, Sturgis, etc. That article is reporting an actual increase in cases immediately following Sturgis, and I wouldn't characterize that reporting as "hypocritical," since Provincetown was reported on the same way a few months ago. It's also not really right to compare mixed indoor/outdoor events that take place over a number of days, like Sturgis (or Provincetown), to fully outdoor activities that are one-off events, like a baseball or football game or concert, but kull has never really been one for arguing in good faith (see also how he expanded my list of fully outdoor events that are comparatively safe to also include "crowded bars," but it is not worthwhile to dwell on things like this with him).
I bet Sturgis didn't spread Covid because of people going to an outside motorcycle event and wouldn't have if it was just that. Everyone needs to fill up their gas tank arriving in town and you go inside to buy cigarettes, drinks, snacks and all that stuff. So that's thousands of people all getting gas at the same few gas stations on the same few streets to the same town. Same for Lake of the Ozarks with boating. Your classic big party weekend isn't limited to people on boats, you get friends together and rent a room to share or take an RV for your extended family.
I saw an example on reddit of some business convention and someone flew there knowing they were sick, untested, and got multiple other people sick doing things indoors at it.
I saw another one of story of a group photo without masks, indoors. They had ten people in the photo test positive.
I run a youth program and we have an inside mask requirement. We just held a big outdoor program with zero masks. That pairing has been our rule since the mask mandate went back into effect.