So an employee of GameFreak was tested positive for COVID-19 and...

For those people saying that this is used to "silence" BBND, no. It's not
It's just basic respect and commonsense to back off during this sort of event.

No matter what DistantKingdom says, BBND is not equal to the Hong Protesters, it's not a freedom fighting organization.

While I was on the fence with how some BBND members reacted, by saying "No need to stop our protests", A LOT of people seemed upset with that attitude, people who are usually not even involved with the game drama, so it's was fair to include that screenshot in this post.

A small misunderstanding. You can't blame all this on BBND. Only the second image, apart from the others, we don't know if they are BBND or not.