The government ‘s Center for Disease Control has recommend that people wear a mask while in close proximity of others to prevent the wearer from spreading droplets that might be the virus…
The problem has become the ‘government’ part…
While protest’s started off as political…A repeat of Donald Trump’s 2016 way of mobilising his base , it still is, it has turned to more….
As we enter the 7th week of virus restrictions?
People have growing increasing tired of the loss of normalcy…Virus or not…
They cannot see the virus…
They CAN see the mask ….
Face masks, it seems, have become a new fault line in America.
The decision to wear or avoid them in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic signals whether people have chosen to adhere to public-health guidelines — a stress that’s playing out on personal and political levels.
For some, the tension over face masks has resulted in great personal loss. On May 1, Calvin Munerlyn, a security guard at a Michigan Family Dollar store, was shot to death while reportedly enforcing the state’s policy to wear face coverings in enclosed public spaces.
“This is senseless. Over a mask. Over a mask?” Tina James, Munerlyn’s cousin, told CNN affiliate WJRT. “This is not the way to do things right now. We need to come together.”
Percolating beneath the more general pandemic stress is a political divide cleaving us over the role of government, science and even truth.
On April 30, some 400 to 700 protesters descended on the Michigan Capitol building to demonstrate against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home order, which was issued in March following the declaration of a state of emergency that was set to expire at the end of the day. (She later signed executive orders that put in place a new state of emergency through May 28.)
Conspicuously, most weren’t wearing face masks.
Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday, Whitmer said that the protesters, whom President Donald Trump sided with, dredged up “some of the worst racism and awful parts of our history in this country.”
“The Confederate flags and nooses, the swastikas, the, you know, behavior that you’ve seen in all of the clips, is not representative of who we are in Michigan. And the fact of the matter is, I mean, we’re in a global pandemic,” she said, adding that “we need to listen to the expertise and our institutions of higher learning and our health system and make decisions that are going to protect the lives of everyone.”
This cultural and political divide has been apparent even beyond the extreme protests occurring across the country.
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