Apparently, protesting is a right reserved only for certain people of the liberal persuasion. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks it’s “really unfortunate” that some Americans are pushing back against draconian decrees by governors and mayors by protesting the loss of some freedoms.
Pelosi  told “Fox News Sunday” that she couldn’t understand why Americans are protesting strict measures to keep people at home, saying that one of the answers to the pandemic is to “shelter in place.”
“That is really the answer,” Pelosi said. “Testing. Tracing. Treatment. Shelter in place… But, you know, people will do what they do.”
“The fact is, we’re all impatient. We all want out. But what they’re doing is really unfortunate,” she said.
Some protesters have been irresponsible. But most of the protests across the country have been “drive-in” protests with people sitting in their cars honking their horns and creating traffic jams. It’s not the lack of social distancing that has Pelosi and governors upset. It’s the challenge to their authority that’s eating at them.
Pelosi in a separate interview broadcast Sunday morning, however, said she wouldn’t “exaggerate the protests.”
“There are some in some places, largely where there’s a Democratic governor. But I think of it largely as a distraction and the president’s embrace of it as a distraction from the fact that he has not appropriately done testing, treatment, contact tracing, and quarantine,” she said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Health officials warn that the gatherings could inadvertently help further the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and ultimately lead to an extension of stay-at-home measures. Many experts also say that the U.S. must have widespread testing availability and a contact-tracing program in place in order to safely reopen portions of the economy.
Texas Governor Gregg Abbot is a Republican and 1000 people just showed up in Austin to protest his policies. South Carolina Governor McMaster is a Republican and there were protests there too.
People are not protesting against Democrats as much as they’re demonstrating against the growing power of government. Politicians are certainly not letting this crisis go to waste as they flex their muscles to bend citizens to their will.
Are we supposed to believe that politicians from small-town mayors to Congress in Washington are just going to give up this power once the crisis is past?
Well, she doesn’t like that the protests aren’t done correctly. They aren’t burning buildings and cars, throwing benches and trash cans through windows, trashing personal property, sneaking up behind people with bicycle locks and clocking them in the head or leaving tons of garbage behind.
Flu season is ending, almost 4 million tests have been done, 740,557 were positive or they only show 66,648 recovered 38,979 dead even with adding presumptive
(do you really trust that?) Are 634930 hospitalized or toughing it out at home still?
They want contact tracing another camel nose under the tent of privacy.
If I went to 2 grocery stores and a hardware store will they shut those down?
Drag me from my house and put me into some quarantine facility?
Lots of questions.
Do these antibody tests prove no active infection?
Ramadan starts on April 23rd. Let’s see how hard these politicians push to have their draconian measures enforced on the Muslim community.
@another vet:
most if not all of the democrap politicians are sleeping with either china or muslins. homosexuality is very high in isis. smile joe, you will get the shaft at the convention. ‘Nancy Antoinette’ sold her soul a long time ago, just a matter of time when history takes her head.