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A day after PA recorded its highest CV death toll, an anti-shutdown protest is planned Monday for the Capitol, organized by a gun-rights activist in Ohio, who with two brothers has been behind similar efforts in other states, as WaPo reported over weekend. https://www.inquirer.com/news/coronavirus-covid-rally-harrisburg-quarantine-shutdown-wolf-chris-dorr-20200420.html
The Facebook group has become a forum for a slew of grievances, including about vaccines, conspiracies about Bill Gates and the notion that shutdowns meant to slow the virus are really aimed at defeating Trump in November, reports @PhillyInquirer
And people are talking about flu again: ‘We get a yearly flu that kills thousands and thousands. I’m not sure what the difference is with this virus,’ says a GOP candidate for state representative from Montgomery Co.
More about Chris Dorr, a chief organizer behind the PA protest https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190809/patrol-reviewing-video-by-gun-rights-advocate-threatening-bodies-laying-all-over-ground
Trump, who released guidelines on how govs should decide about reopenings, reversed himself and encouraged protesters to ‘liberate’ states, as his poll numbers started falling. Lots of insights from @maggieNYT https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/us/politics/trump-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare
Here was Trump on Thursday officially giving governors the authority to reopen after meeting careful benchmarks about the virus’s decline. Less than 24 hours later he contradicted it w his ‘liberate’ tweets https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-guidelines-for-reopening-states-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-will-leave-decisions-to-governors/2020/04/16/593edd38-8022-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html
This is what Chris Dorr, event organizer, had to say when asked if attendees might spread the virus: “This is an outdoor event, I think there’s a good amount of air flow. Exercise the common sense your grandma taught you. If you’re at risk, if you’ve got the flu, stay home.’’
