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Stay At Home Protests Can Only Lead To Disaster
Gathering in large groups while a highly infectious disease spreads through communities will only accomplish the opposite of what protesters want: Longer lockdowns, and higher infection rates.
All across the country people have started to tightly gather in enormous groups to protest Stay At Home orders implemented by their states. Some states have stricter orders than others, but even ones with more standard measures are facing backlash.
Here in New England, many of our states instituted the orders until May 4th. The current date is April 20th. That means there are still two more weeks left until the first re-evaluation point was supposed to be reached.
We didn’t even make it that far.
Everyone is frustrated. Many are out of work and there is a high level of uncertainty about what’s going to happen next. Just a short time before writing this, oil prices actually reached a negative price, after the biggest single day price drop in American history.
But while oil prices may be diving, protests are causing Coronavirus cases to spike, as seen in Kentucky just a week after they had similar protests as pictured above.
