Good heavens, that's potentially worrying...
All in the same area were documented cases or were the 1,300 statewide cases? (I think I found an article you may have seen:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-than-new-1300-cases-of-covid-19-reported-in-ohio/ar-BB12SGlu)
That protest could see the number jump big time as well... Only one infected person is needed at the right place. Such as that lovely video of some bloke licking a subway handle. That's a great way to make new cases... among other things... And protesters forget, one reason why the numbers aren't higher is because of social distancing. Which isn't a total stop and there might be better ways to do all this but if they're screeching in the here and now in claims it's a hoax... At one point there may have been legitimate reason to believe that. At this point, why are they so certain it's a hoax?
Still, when I hear "4000 new cases reported", that's the size of an entire small town or two. They say "hoax" because their local hospital may have one or two cases and not be overran in the way larger cities have been. In a larger city with 125000 or more people, that 4000 seems small but could very well balloon if everybody be-bopped and lallygagged like how they usually do. The death rate could be higher, having this for weeks of enduring respiratory misery (hence yon hospital overloads)... or for a number they will be asymptomatic... never mind long-term issues of immunity (or not), reinfection, virus mutation rendering antibodies ineffective, and a litany of variables and nuances therein... /choirpreaching
Plus, I don't recall anyone saying anything like "People giving up condoms to prevent HSV don't deserve the former" or anything as nutty. COVID is a virus too, only HSV (which is known and HSV1 is comparatively quite benign) doesn't cling to thrive in all areas of the body (only two), survive for hours or longer on a container or jar that was touched after fondling an infected area, or if one has a dry cough at just the right moments. Nor do we know the long-term ramifications quite yet for what is a new pandemic. Wake me when a strain of HSV is caused by dry cough and touching something that was touched and then one picks their nose immediately afterward.