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Hundreds Protest Against Coronavirus Lockdown Rules
« on: April 19, 2020, 01:41:13 am »
Hundreds Protest Against Coronavirus Lockdown Rules
Breitbart, Apr 18, 2020



Hundreds of people demonstrated Saturday in cities across America against coronavirus-related stay-at-home rules — with the explicit encouragement of President Donald Trump — as resentment against prolonged confinement grew.

An estimated 400 people gathered under a cold rain in Concord, New Hampshire — many on foot while others remained in their cars — to send a message that extended quarantines were not necessary in a state with relatively few confirmed cases of COVID-19, an AFP photographer reported.
 
A similar rally outside Maryland’s colonial-era statehouse in Annapolis drew around 200 protesters. And more than 250 people showed up in the Texas capital of Austin, as such protests continued to spread.

They drew encouragement in certain Democratic-led states from tweets by Trump — who has said he favors a quick return to normal practices — though protests have also taken place in Republican-led states like New Hampshire.

In Concord, demonstrators carried signs with slogans like “The numbers lie” or “Reopen New Hampshire.”  Their common demand was that the stay-at-home order for the state of 1.3 million people be called off before its scheduled May 4 end date.


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Re: Hundreds Protest Against Coronavirus Lockdown Rules
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2020, 02:29:56 am »
We all know rat Governors like the one in N.H. hate our President, and want to kill their state citizens.  It's time to Liberate N.H.  Sic Semper Tyrannis!

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Re: Hundreds Protest Against Coronavirus Lockdown Rules
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Re: Hundreds Protest Against Coronavirus Lockdown Rules
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2020, 04:12:46 am »
It's the modern-day Anti-Mask League.
https://www.influenzaarchive.org/cities/city-sanfrancisco.html#
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Once again, San Franciscans put on their flu masks, and once again complaints were lodged. One man wrote Hassler that masks served no purpose, adding that if the health officer wished to wear a mask he could freely do so, “and as far as I am concerned, I hope he will have to wear one for the next five years.” He opined that the mask ordinance stood on shaky legal ground, and that it would likely be dissolved if the issue were brought before the courts.29 Sentiment was so strong against the mask that several influential San Franciscans, including a few physicians as well as a member of the Board of Supervisors, formed “The Anti-Mask League” which held at least one public meeting to denounce the ordinance and to discuss ways to put an end to it. Over 2,000 people attended the event.30

On February 1 mask detractors got their wish. Mayor Rolph once again proclaimed the mask ordinance rescinded following a meeting of the Board of health, which determined that the epidemic situation had improved enough that the measure was no longer necessary.31 Without fanfare but relieved to be rid of the masks as well as the epidemic, San Franciscans removed their gauze coverings and went about their business as families, organizations, institutions, and the city slowly pieced back together life as it existed before the plague.

The epidemic brought nearly 45,000 cases of influenza to San Francisco and killed over 3,000 of its residents in the fall of 1918 and the winter of 1919. On numerous occasions throughout the fall of 1918 and winter of 1919, Hassler had made statements that San Francisco was the only large city in the entire world to check its epidemic so quickly. By mid-February 1919, however, when the United States Public Health Service released figures on the nation’s epidemic, it became clear that Hassler had been wrong: San Francisco was reported as having suffered the most of all major American cities, with a death rate approaching 30 deaths per 1,000 people.32 With more complete and accurate data today, we now know
that San Francisco fared slightly better. Still, the city's total excess death rate due to influenza and pneumonia during the epidemic was a whopping 673 per 100,000 people."