Protesters and National Guardsmen face off on East Lake Street, Friday, May 29, 2020, in St. Paul, Minn. The massive protests sweeping across U.S. cities following the police killing of a black man in Minnesota have elevated fears of a new surge in cases of the coronavirus. Images showing thousands of screaming, unmasked protesters have sent shudders through the health community, who worry their calls for social distancing during the demonstrations are unlikely to be heard.
Ingram, 25, who was wearing a mask, said she has asthma and was worried about contracting the virus. But she said as a black woman, she always felt that her life was under threat from police and she needed to protest that. The U.S. has been worst hit by the coronavirus outbreak, with more than 1.7 million cases and over 103,000 deaths, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.In New York, where more than 21,000 people have died during the pandemic, a large crowd in Brooklyn tossed water bottles at officers and torched a police van Friday outside the Barclays Center.
But it wasn’t just protesters at risk — unmasked officers stood within arm’s reach of shouting demonstrators. In Atlanta, police Chief Erika Shields waded into a crowd without a mask Friday while she listened to people air frustrations. as spiking infection rates in India and elsewhere reinforced that the pandemic is far from contained.
Of course.....🙄
More people will die. And Trump will shift from China, to blaming the protesters. People willing to risk their lives to get justice. Justice for themselves, their communities, their children and their future. Trump will blame and condemn them. Just like he condemned this:
pdacosta If you get a cough, please hug a Republican.
And just like that covid is back. 😳
Shut up with the fake disease crap already!
We need majors and judges, people who have the best intrest in keeping our vote safe at post office's from Republican extremist from coarsing our votes to favoring Trump, only NAZI white privilege supremacist vote Trump, we know who they are acting Christian
The same people who hyperventilated like the world was going to end if we went outside have suddenly dropped that concern since the riots began.
Ya think? Fuck em
It's already happening in Arizona and Arkansas. New COVID 19 patients are swarming hospitals in both states.
True. This could also be used as a litmus test to see if large crowds lead to a surge of cases. If not, people will see it as proof that it's safer to 'restart' the economy.
the health community is a fearful bunch...
Given the fact that some are not wearing masks and those who are, have to remove the masks when the FUCKING POLICE shoots them with tear gas, Imma say yeah COVID19 cases will go up Protests
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The funding of WHO has nothing to do with our recovery.
How is that possible? These Antifa THUGS are hooded, masked up and even carrying umbrellas.
Maybe, maybe not!
It’s almost as if maybe we didn’t have grifters and Nazi’s in the Federal government, and a decades long epidemic of racist cops, we could have avoided all this. A coronavirus plan would be super helpful too.
That is what I worried the most, when people tend to forget to wear mask properly or hardly wear one during protest, more dangerous for for peple with underlying conditions. the virus can hurt more, think about the medical work we lost, be safe!
This was posted on Facebook in the Houston area
Trump’s America.. the descent of western civilisation... Civil war 2
Oh yeah - there is still a fucking pandemic!!!!!
You people are dumb. The country had been reopening for nearly a month already and cases are actually going down.
The virus stuff is officially over. Drop it.
People acting perfectly rationally - if they’re going to die from povery, covid19, or police brutality anyway, they might as well die fighting for something they believe in.
Didn’t they say it’s deadlier amongst the black community? Guess they don’t care about their own health
What happens when they have a vaccine and Trumps is killing people?
TrumpResignNow
Yes well, since when has there been a more selfish society?
I think that was the point of the cops being filmed in broad daylight killing another helpless African American. Seems convenient to have thousands of Minorities out of their homes during a pandemic, who are more susceptible to become ill and die from disenfranchisement.
Duh
You mean the riots with the burning of buildings and cars and whatnot? Ya, that’s been crazy.
Yes, that's what we should be concerned about .
thugs immune to virus?
It will spike exponentially, but this time.... IT’S WORTH IT!!
When You have more important problems then Covid....
The far left and the race baiters are all over it.
Okay.. deep breath, your all over the place here..
Riots and organized anarchy, not protests.
At least, now we’ll see if virus was a hoax or not 😊
maybe the terrorist cops should have thought about that first.
And the politicians say it’s ok to protest just don’t go to church
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Surges are irrelevant. It’s spikes in hospital visits that is the problem.
Absolute worst time to cut funding, Trump doesn't care about anyone other than himself.
Retweet! The 1st and 2nd Amendments as well as our sheer Patriotic, Freedom Loving numbers are Americans' offense against the unconscious demonrat tyrrany imposed on US and the world over the last few months. We rise up and restore OUR AMERICA AND THE WORLD PEACEFULLY.
God bless him
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