Modern Day Heroes

Edwin showed me a story this morning of two people in scrubs, standing in front of traffic in Denver, who were counter-protesting “Operation Gridlock” a right-wing-led effort to end lockdown measures.

I hope the protestors were ashamed when they came face to face with the healthcare workers (their identities haven’t been confirmed, but even if they’re posing as nurses, the message still resonates). Many of them are woefully overworked right now and risk their lives every time they head back to work. I had recently read a story in The New Yorker about the hellish conditions two nurses faced during the night shift at a Detroit hospital, so I had an immediate, visceral reaction to these images.

To be fair, some of the people protesting the lockdown measures are terrified because they can’t work and earn a paycheck. They’ve blown through their savings and have to make choices between buying groceries and paying rent. However, they seem to be egregiously misinformed about the seriousness of the virus and the intentions behind the lockdown measures. Who could possibly be responsible for this dangerous dissemination of falsehoods?