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Protesters calling for cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war block freeway in Seattle for several hours (apnews.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Can someone please calmly explain how blocking a freeway across an ocean and a country on a different continent, is supposed to have any effect on a political issue in the middle east?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://komonews.com/news/local/downtown-protest-on-i-5-blocks-ambulance-carrying-patient-in-critical-condition-seattle-downtown-washington-state-patrol-harborview

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So your numerator is 1. What’s your denominator? Let’s call it the number of street blocking protests in the last ten years.

In addition, the article doesn’t mention any ill effects coming from the delay, so we should probably be using a weighted function for this to see when it had an actual medical consequence.