'Re-open' protests are popping up across the country

Updated: December 14, 2024 - 4:38pm

<p>From Virginia to California, impatient protesters across the country are challenging statewide coronavirus orders.</p><p>Holding up signs, carrying American flags, and touting Constitutional rights, the protestors ignore social-distancing guidelines, and are demanding an end to the economic shutdowns aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus.</p><p>Many groups, such as ReOpen NC, start Facebook groups that have quickly grown into the thousands. Protestors share experiences of lost jobs and, economic difficulties and loss of freedoms.</p><p> Reaction to the these events have been wide and varied. Some support the growing movement.</p><p> While other have called their actions "dangerous."</p><p>Read more here: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article242203471.html#storylin<…;