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by jariel 2248 days ago
"this is not a grass root movement "

This is a deeply disingenuous statement and essentially false.

a) The protestors at the rallies clearly believe in their cause. You can't delegitimize their opinion.

b) CNN just published a study showing 2/3 worried about opening to early 1/3 worried about not opening soon enough.

That's 100M Americans, out of them it only takes a few to be very concerned.

The snippets from a recent protest of individuals describing how they are going out of business, will lose their livelihoods, homes and going destitute cannot be dismissed.

S. Korea has no lock-down with tracing. Sweden has no lock-down and is going 'kind of ok'.

It's deeply disturbing to see major companies suppress individuals' right to reasonable expression and it's not helpful to diminish their views just because a few idiots in Russia may like it.

The protests are fine, except for all the guns, which is a little spooky.