The Push-back Begins: Protests of Stay-at-Home Orders Popping Up Nationwide

By Debra Heine • April 15, 2020

Numerous demonstrations of civil disobedience have have sprung up in cities across the country as Americans lose patience with their state’s stay-at-home orders. For the most part, protesters have been allowed to demonstrate unhindered, but in Raleigh, North Carolina, Tuesday, local authorities shut down a libertarian group’s protest, and one woman was arrested.

About 100 people gathered outside the state assembly on Tuesday to protest the statewide stay-at-home order issued by Gov. Roy Cooper to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.............

 However, new evidence suggests that the coronavirus infection is much more widespread than the experts initially thought, meaning the virus is much less deadly than originally believed.

Americans are becoming increasingly concerned that the draconian measures taken to slow the spread of the disease are doing more harm than good.  In Ohio, folks have been showing up at Gov. Mike DeWine’s daily COVID-19 press briefings outside of the Statehouse in Columbus to protest statewide shutdowns. Their signs read “Quarantine worse than virus,” and “Social distancing or social conditioning. We do not consent.”........To Read More....