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Medical Workers In Denver, Colorado Block Quarantine Protesters
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Medical Workers In Denver, Colorado Block Quarantine Protesters

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With many cities and entire states in the US still under lockdown, tensions are running high at the moment. Around the country, people are protesting coronavirus lockdown orders (making some of us want to roll our eyes all the way to the back of our heads). However, in the state of Colorado, healthcare workers protested back.

While scientists, as well as epidemiologists, warn that social distancing is the best we can do at this time to slow the spread of the virus and not make healthcare systems overwhelmed, this doesn’t sit right for everyone. Over the weekend, many quarantine protests were held in various cities of the United States. However, healthcare workers in Denver were having none of it.

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Over the weekend, anti-lockdown protests were held in cities across the US

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This Sunday, hundreds of people gathered at the State Capitol in Denver, waving around flags and protest signs, while lines of cars and trucks drove around honking. KCNC has reported that two separate protests took place at the Capitol. Photos and videos taken in Denver show a small group of healthcare workers dressed in scrubs and protective masks, standing on a crosswalk and blocking vehicles.

In Denver, some protesters gathered on the steps of the State Capitol and some lined up in cars with signs

Image credits: Alyson Mcclaran

However, they ran into a counter-protest as two healthcare workers in Denver were having none of it

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One woman dressed in a USA shirt and sitting on the passenger side of a pickup truck was shouting at the counter-protesters: “Land of the free. Go to China if you want communism!” The shouts were accompanied by the sign that said, “Land of the Free”.

They stood at an intersection in silence, sometimes blocking the cars that went by

Image credits: Alyson Mcclaran

The healthcare workers said that protesters treated them with hostility

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Colorado governor Jared Polis has issued a stay-at-home order that is to remain in effect until April 26.

Around the country, protesters were rallying against coronavirus restrictions and said that their rights and personal freedom are infringed and the lockdown is threatening to destroy their livelihoods.

While they stood there as a reminder that human lives are at stake

Image credits: Alyson Mcclaran

The counter-protesting workers were not identified

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While at the moment, more than 97% of the US population is under lockdown, the president of the Land of the Free said states will be able to start reopening on May 1.

Software engineer Marc Zenn has shared a powerful video of the protest that he witnessed himself

Image credits: MarcZenn

Here’s what people online had to say

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lottiehoyle19_1 avatar
LottieH
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The protesters should be made to bury the dead. See what it is really like on the front line.

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David Morey
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do your research. This was a staged protest by both sides. Go to YouTube, there's a video someone took who was there showing everyone getting into place for this hoax.

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simon_37 avatar
Treessimontrees
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The right are always going on about entitlement of the left or 'millennials', and yet they can't go a few weeks without going out a lot and they think they're living in a communist country.

hazelree avatar
Stille20
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even if the woman is actually suffering hardships from the shutdown, she looks like a white trash psycho leaning out of her very expensive vehicle in a tacky USA Jersey to scream at this man who is putting his life on the line for people like her.

slw303 avatar
Sue Prewitt
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These people don't want to go back to work. They want YOU to go back to work! So they can go to the movies, get their hair cut, eat out, or whatever else their little brains can think of.

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theresa ervin
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hospitals should have the right to turn away individuals who participate in these selfish and ignorant protests. Save the hospital beds and COVID-19 treatment for those who are respectful to medial workers and who understand the gravity of lives lost during this pandemic.

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[] person []
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Healthcare workers are putting so many things ahead of them to try and stop the corona virus so if those anti-quarantine don't stay in its not gonna end fast its gonna keep spreading

kha_duong_1 avatar
K.
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Let’s get this straight. No country has ever realized the principles of communism. Modern day communism is hoax, it’s actually tyranny. Telling someone on the frontlines to leave the country?!! Don’t be showing your face anywhere near them, any of them.

merlin240371 avatar
Richard Brown
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Take the protesters benefits away and make them go to work. If they think they are above a lock down then they can do something productive. My hats off to the Nurses counter protesting in a peaceful fashion

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KT Trondsen
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Too many conspiracy theorists out there. Makes you realize how many people are probably undiagnosed with mental disorders. They'll pay with their stupidity with their lives as many already have. I suppose this is natural selection

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Astrid Nineor
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aye, but they may drag others with them when hospitals have to cancel surgeries to treat them

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Dizzyaudiohh
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Omgoodness, this is sickening. I'm a hairstylist and they're saying we might be going back to work May 12th? Wtf.. I do not feel safe to go back to work that soon.

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Chris DiFonso
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If the protesters keep this up, and if people don't practice safety (distancing, wearing masks, etc.) the sign will have to be changed to "Land of the Dead." P.S. The governors who are easing restrictions (allowing beaches, gyms, etc. to reopen) are making things worse. Due to their actions, this nightmare will last longer. More people will get infected, more people will die, economic recovery will take longer.

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Jeff Klein
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think that probably ALL of those idiots have never been in the military and actually did something for their country. Because being in the military means FOLLOWING ORDERS FOR THE GOOD OF ALL. You may not agree, you may have to suspend your idea of freedom so that a problem can be solved. I view them as completely spoiled, selfish children who need a good spanking.

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Treessimontrees
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Remember how we warned everyone that smoking doesn't only kill the smoker but those around them, seems people need a refresher on that angle, but it's a killer virus.

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Stannous Flouride
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."~ Clarence Darrow (That being so eloquently said, I'd like to read a death certificate that said: Drowned in their own mucus because they listened to idiots instead of medical professionals)

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Mark
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Protestors love to protest until someone else who is protesting gets in their way ;)

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Charmagne Collins
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I’m holding a phone up to an elderly patients head who is dying of COVID so that his wife can say she loves him and tears are streaming down my face soaking my mask, I’ll be thinking of these fools and waiting for them or their ilk to show up in my ER. And I will treat them with the exact same dignity and compassion as I have all of my patients. And when they look to us for comfort, I’ll ask them “Do you feel your rights are being inconvenienced now?”

lina911 avatar
Lin
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There we go. Human stupidity, ignorance and arrogance at its best... people never learn... Big applause to the nurses standing for what is right

dmb0531 avatar
Gina
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is no end to the stupidity of Trump supporters. I respect others opinions but the dumbest people support him. It's unreal!

kjl01 avatar
Karen Lyon
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That "It's the land of the Free!" argument is just such unmitigated BS. Freedom does not mean that there are no boundaries. What are they, twelve years old? It really makes me wonder if they hurt themselves when they eat. They seem to have such a hard time grasping the obvious.

cjucz22 avatar
Christina Uhlir
Community Member
3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Only responsible people deserve freedom, otherwise freedom becomes counter-productive. With every right there is a whole bunch of responsibilities coming with it.

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CR Harvey
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Counter protestors got it right. Geez everybody else go home!

ionescupopa avatar
Ionescu Popa
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If someone thins "yea, but the people is innocent" - this is the people!

numinosa avatar
Ottmar Straub
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those "medical workers" have not any understanding of democracy. We have such people in all "democratic coountries". To block people who do not believe in the propaganda around the virus is violent and suppressive. They have no idea that they are paving the way for fascism. Most of us believe the huge hoax played out around Covid-19. What a massive story played out in front of our eyes.

numinosa avatar
Ottmar Straub
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is happening in many countries. People do not understand what democracy means. These "health-care-workers" are not healthy in terms of understanding democracy. Covid-19 is more or less fake. It is kinda dramatic that most of us do not understand the propaganda of Bill Gates and the others who will get even much more rich with the crisis. Corruption is a huge problem we will have to face and sadly the majority of us is not intelligent enough to deal with such "problems"

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Ellen
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of the famous pic of the kid standing in front of the tank just waiting to get killed, so tragic and these pics are done again and again. Just an observation, wouldn't want to risk my life to these nuts toting ak 47s "to protect themselves," as if a gun can shoot and kill a virus

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Jim Takahashi
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Land of the Free? Hahaha … it’s the Land of Idiots! It’s never the Land of Responsibility. It’s never the Land of Fairness. I couldn’t be happier to see Natural Selection at work in Damn-’Murica, but I’m furious that these idiots may well drag others (especially heroes) along with them.

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Lisa Chambers
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3 years ago

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Looks like they didnt have any patients to worry about if they can go stand in traffic. As a police officer, I would have cited them for blocking traffic. They were causing the problem and doing NOTHING to help. Let the cops do their jobs and I promise a cop will never try to be a doctor or nurse, or in this case, an intern with nothing to do.

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MadRatter
Community Member
3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What else are they supposed to do to get their point across? no one listens to them otherwise. And to me it doesn't look like traffic, but a demonstration. And what b******t about them not having any patients... Maybe they're using what little FREE time they have to protest people's stupidity. And even if they don't have as many patients now, that could very well change, especially with those protesting, whiny numb skulls on the lose. I have police officers in my family and they would rather clear the people NOT BUCKLED in, hanging out of the windows of moving cars, away. But - hey - maybe that's a European thing.

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LottieH
Community Member
3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The protesters should be made to bury the dead. See what it is really like on the front line.

davidmorey avatar
David Morey
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do your research. This was a staged protest by both sides. Go to YouTube, there's a video someone took who was there showing everyone getting into place for this hoax.

Load More Replies...
nbo avatar
simon_37 avatar
Treessimontrees
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The right are always going on about entitlement of the left or 'millennials', and yet they can't go a few weeks without going out a lot and they think they're living in a communist country.

hazelree avatar
Stille20
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even if the woman is actually suffering hardships from the shutdown, she looks like a white trash psycho leaning out of her very expensive vehicle in a tacky USA Jersey to scream at this man who is putting his life on the line for people like her.

slw303 avatar
Sue Prewitt
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These people don't want to go back to work. They want YOU to go back to work! So they can go to the movies, get their hair cut, eat out, or whatever else their little brains can think of.

theresaervin avatar
theresa ervin
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hospitals should have the right to turn away individuals who participate in these selfish and ignorant protests. Save the hospital beds and COVID-19 treatment for those who are respectful to medial workers and who understand the gravity of lives lost during this pandemic.

sakinanaqvi avatar
[] person []
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Healthcare workers are putting so many things ahead of them to try and stop the corona virus so if those anti-quarantine don't stay in its not gonna end fast its gonna keep spreading

kha_duong_1 avatar
K.
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Let’s get this straight. No country has ever realized the principles of communism. Modern day communism is hoax, it’s actually tyranny. Telling someone on the frontlines to leave the country?!! Don’t be showing your face anywhere near them, any of them.

merlin240371 avatar
Richard Brown
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Take the protesters benefits away and make them go to work. If they think they are above a lock down then they can do something productive. My hats off to the Nurses counter protesting in a peaceful fashion

katie-trondsen avatar
KT Trondsen
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Too many conspiracy theorists out there. Makes you realize how many people are probably undiagnosed with mental disorders. They'll pay with their stupidity with their lives as many already have. I suppose this is natural selection

twilight_mist avatar
Astrid Nineor
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aye, but they may drag others with them when hospitals have to cancel surgeries to treat them

Load More Replies...
mercedestigner avatar
Dizzyaudiohh
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Omgoodness, this is sickening. I'm a hairstylist and they're saying we might be going back to work May 12th? Wtf.. I do not feel safe to go back to work that soon.

chrisdifonso avatar
Chris DiFonso
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If the protesters keep this up, and if people don't practice safety (distancing, wearing masks, etc.) the sign will have to be changed to "Land of the Dead." P.S. The governors who are easing restrictions (allowing beaches, gyms, etc. to reopen) are making things worse. Due to their actions, this nightmare will last longer. More people will get infected, more people will die, economic recovery will take longer.

jeffklein avatar
Jeff Klein
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think that probably ALL of those idiots have never been in the military and actually did something for their country. Because being in the military means FOLLOWING ORDERS FOR THE GOOD OF ALL. You may not agree, you may have to suspend your idea of freedom so that a problem can be solved. I view them as completely spoiled, selfish children who need a good spanking.

simon_37 avatar
Treessimontrees
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Remember how we warned everyone that smoking doesn't only kill the smoker but those around them, seems people need a refresher on that angle, but it's a killer virus.

stanflouride avatar
Stannous Flouride
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."~ Clarence Darrow (That being so eloquently said, I'd like to read a death certificate that said: Drowned in their own mucus because they listened to idiots instead of medical professionals)

markymarky270270 avatar
Mark
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Protestors love to protest until someone else who is protesting gets in their way ;)

blackledgecharmagne avatar
Charmagne Collins
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I’m holding a phone up to an elderly patients head who is dying of COVID so that his wife can say she loves him and tears are streaming down my face soaking my mask, I’ll be thinking of these fools and waiting for them or their ilk to show up in my ER. And I will treat them with the exact same dignity and compassion as I have all of my patients. And when they look to us for comfort, I’ll ask them “Do you feel your rights are being inconvenienced now?”

lina911 avatar
Lin
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There we go. Human stupidity, ignorance and arrogance at its best... people never learn... Big applause to the nurses standing for what is right

dmb0531 avatar
Gina
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is no end to the stupidity of Trump supporters. I respect others opinions but the dumbest people support him. It's unreal!

kjl01 avatar
Karen Lyon
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That "It's the land of the Free!" argument is just such unmitigated BS. Freedom does not mean that there are no boundaries. What are they, twelve years old? It really makes me wonder if they hurt themselves when they eat. They seem to have such a hard time grasping the obvious.

cjucz22 avatar
Christina Uhlir
Community Member
3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Only responsible people deserve freedom, otherwise freedom becomes counter-productive. With every right there is a whole bunch of responsibilities coming with it.

Load More Replies...
crh_62462 avatar
CR Harvey
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Counter protestors got it right. Geez everybody else go home!

ionescupopa avatar
Ionescu Popa
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If someone thins "yea, but the people is innocent" - this is the people!

numinosa avatar
Ottmar Straub
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those "medical workers" have not any understanding of democracy. We have such people in all "democratic coountries". To block people who do not believe in the propaganda around the virus is violent and suppressive. They have no idea that they are paving the way for fascism. Most of us believe the huge hoax played out around Covid-19. What a massive story played out in front of our eyes.

numinosa avatar
Ottmar Straub
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is happening in many countries. People do not understand what democracy means. These "health-care-workers" are not healthy in terms of understanding democracy. Covid-19 is more or less fake. It is kinda dramatic that most of us do not understand the propaganda of Bill Gates and the others who will get even much more rich with the crisis. Corruption is a huge problem we will have to face and sadly the majority of us is not intelligent enough to deal with such "problems"

ellenarndt avatar
Ellen
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of the famous pic of the kid standing in front of the tank just waiting to get killed, so tragic and these pics are done again and again. Just an observation, wouldn't want to risk my life to these nuts toting ak 47s "to protect themselves," as if a gun can shoot and kill a virus

newsylander avatar
Jim Takahashi
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Land of the Free? Hahaha … it’s the Land of Idiots! It’s never the Land of Responsibility. It’s never the Land of Fairness. I couldn’t be happier to see Natural Selection at work in Damn-’Murica, but I’m furious that these idiots may well drag others (especially heroes) along with them.

lisachambers2018 avatar
Lisa Chambers
Community Member
3 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

Looks like they didnt have any patients to worry about if they can go stand in traffic. As a police officer, I would have cited them for blocking traffic. They were causing the problem and doing NOTHING to help. Let the cops do their jobs and I promise a cop will never try to be a doctor or nurse, or in this case, an intern with nothing to do.

ratcards avatar
MadRatter
Community Member
3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What else are they supposed to do to get their point across? no one listens to them otherwise. And to me it doesn't look like traffic, but a demonstration. And what b******t about them not having any patients... Maybe they're using what little FREE time they have to protest people's stupidity. And even if they don't have as many patients now, that could very well change, especially with those protesting, whiny numb skulls on the lose. I have police officers in my family and they would rather clear the people NOT BUCKLED in, hanging out of the windows of moving cars, away. But - hey - maybe that's a European thing.

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