Video: At Virginia Capitol Square, Anti-"Lockdown" Protesters Claim "It's Just a Cold Virus!"

[lowkell]

https://bluevirginia.us/2020/04/video-photos-police-tell-dozen-or-so-anti-lockdown-protesters-to-spread-out-leave-virginias-capitol-square

Meanwhile, this morning’s Navigator Research polling has 51% who agree that “[w]e are currently doing the right thing when it comes to social distancing”; 35% who believe “[w]e need more aggressive social distancing measures, further limiting people’s movement” (that’s 86% if you combine the two); and just 10% who believe “[w]e should relax social distancing measures, letting people move around more freely.”

Also worth noting from that poll: 55% worry that “[s]ocial distancing will end too soon and prolong the pandemic, endangering the economy and putting American lives at risk,” twice as many as the 27% who are more concerned that “[s]ocial distancing will go on too long and cause unnecessary damage to the economy and Americans’ livelihoods.” Finally, when you break this down by party, only 3% of Democrats think it’s time to relax social distancing measures, compared to 17% of Republicans – higher, but still a very low percentage. So clearly, the folks on Capitol Square in Richmond a little while ago are not in the majority, but in fact in a pretty small minority.