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Not sure that turnout is over a million. Even HKFP are being cautious and only switched from “tens” to “hundreds” of thousands about an hour ago. I do hope that you are right though! And even 1 in 10 or 15 would be remarkable.

Edit: the SCMP has some turnout figures. As usual they vary wildly.¹

1. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3013725...

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Drone crowd counting needs to be basic part of modern journalism.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327765209_Scale-Ada...

I just gathered it from live video, local forum posts, news and my intuition of the size of Hong Kong island (it's all full with people still being stuck in the train system from Kowloon side). From images, it's also visually much bigger than the previous ~500K turnout protest.

But yeah it's intuition after all so I could be wrong. Still, numbers in the 60K range is just impossible.

Edit: By gather and intuition, I mean I'm getting quite a volume of confirmation bias from forum post, video comments and the hosts of the protest.

One of the pan-dems doubts it’s more than the aftermath of 6/4 which was ~a million, but the opening of all the roads etc. suggests more than the art. 23 protests, yes.

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