Thousands of people are walking together on the streets

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Jun 6, 2020 26 Comments

While millions of people are home because the government shutdown their business. This is deeply unfair. Protesters are right to protest police violence. If peaceful, they are in the right. Good for them. But the violence is perpetrated by the government, not just the police. Locking down millions of people from their livelihood is an abuse of power. It's criminal. And the fact that some people can freely walk together outside, while the rest has to be locked down inside, is profoundly unjust. Government is the abuser. Police is just an enforcement arm of the abuser. Profoundly violent, I agree.

Millions of these business owners and workers that lost their jobs are from minorities. So if race defines your worldview, you should feel sympathetic. But honestly I'm not a minority and I kept my job. I'm the lucky one. Still this situation is unfair. Wife and kid at home, daycare closed, working full time, trying to keep it together. For what? This is ridiculous. For everybody. We should all be outside. There can't be a different set of rules for us and for them. It's just unfair #lockdown #netflix #quarantine

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  • How do you protest a virus?
    Jun 6, 2020 8
  • I think itโ€™s pretty clear how the authoritarian left and their leadership at the state and federal level are supremely hypocritical as to covid , forcing shelter in place, suppressing the groups of people wanting to be freed from the tyranny while supporting BLM protests, looting and rioting instead of social distancing . The medical community is complicit in this too as we saw them block the freedom protestors in the streets yet clap on and encourage covid spread among the BLM protestors.
    Jun 6, 2020 3
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    b7ls14

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    b7ls14
    I read your post twice and itโ€™s a bit all over the place. What is your point specifically?
    Jun 6, 2020 4
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      bosshawg

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      bosshawg
      So we arrest mothers at playgrounds but not rioters? Thatโ€™s against the 14th Amendment.
      Jun 14, 2020
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      HaroldWren

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      HaroldWren
      Constitution is not a suicide pact. I agree that assembling in large numbers is not the best idea in a global pandemic but logistically we canโ€™t arrest 1000 people. Plus there is an amendment for what they are doing too.

      In this, like all discussions on Blind, I see the urge for simple answers but this is a complex layered issue.

      Having said all that, yes, absolutely, mass gatherings endanger public health and can end up causing thousands of deaths.
      Jun 14, 2020
  • Hang on. Virus can do something police can't do. One carrier can infect many others, and so on. That's what's referred as exponential spread.
    Once an expotential spread starts, there's no going back.

    People are outside not because there's nothing to fear. Protestors are out because there's great wrong in the country and cannot keep silent.

    Mortality rate on covid-19 is actually higher than expected. And this is BEFORE the expotential spread. If this bug actually get around to spread unchecked, you aint gonna say they are more likely to die from violence.
    Jun 6, 2020 0
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    kisskiss๐Ÿ’‹

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    kisskiss๐Ÿ’‹
    it is justified to protest blm. however this should not be mistaken as permissive stance toward those wishing to make a living or feed their families. and it is definitely not safe to protest lockdowns, only blm (you tucking racist pigs)
    Jun 7, 2020 2