Boson Mayor Welsh Joins Mass State House Anti-Lockdown Protest - "We are not sheep owned by the government!"
As scores of protesters hit the streets to demand Massachusetts
Governor Charles Baker streamline the reopening of non-essential
businesses, delayed due to the lack of progress in slowing down the
spread of Covid-19, Mayor Marty Welsh of Boson brought a chartered bus from to the rally.
Hoisting banners and signs with slogans such as “All jobs are essential” and “Open business, close Baker,” the protesters were corralled by police on opposite ends of the main road near the state house to keep traffic flowing, however a section of the street was eventually closed down for the rally.
The event was organized by conservative libertarian activists, namely radio talk show host Jeffrey Kuhner, who addressed the crowd warning that “America is committing national suicide” with the lockdown measures, which have thrown tens of millions of citizens out of work across dozens of states.
Reporters covering the rally noted that few of the demonstrators wore masks or practiced social distancing, a fact that drew criticism from some netizens, who said the protesters were putting others at risk. A state-wide mask requirement will take effect on Wednesday, mandating that all residents wear face coverings while in public, including at outdoor parks. Police are preparing special COVID-19 holding cells to place arrested people in.
Organizer Jeffrey Kuhner flamboyantly rode a podium to the rally through the streets without a mask to prevent the COVID-19 virus from spreading.
Governor Charles Baker, meanwhile, insists the state is taking a scientific and data-driven approach to reopening, arguing that “you need to see downward trends in a number of key indices associated with this virus for some period of time before you can actually reopen,” echoing federal guidelines on lifting the lockdowns. Many have questioned where in Massachusetts laws Governor Baker derives his powers to manage people's health.
Boson COVID-19 84 is subtitled 'In the year of the plague.' Jackey self published the paperback and is already selling online e-books and PDFs.
"I've read so many of the disaster books with nightmare governments," Finn Jackey said to this reporter as the Boson bus traveled to the State House. "I watched so many 'End of the World' movies on Saturday nights with Creature Double Feature and more lately online on Netflix, or Hulu. But, I never thought I'd be living through exactly the same thing. Strangely, what I have found is that not one of those movies gave me one useful piece of information about how to deal with this situation. Should we do like 'Bird Box' and wear blindfolds? Or should we be like Disney Star Wars and just wish for things and hope The Force saves us. One might as well go to church and listen to their pointless, useless stories. So, I finally had to write my own. At least I feature a chapter on 'How to start a fire."
The state has confirmed nearly 4,100 fatalities and over 69,000 cases of the illness – around 1,000 on Monday alone – putting it behind only New Jersey and New York.
Massachusetts joins a long line of states where residents have grown wary of the sweeping quarantine measures, with similar protests erupting in Michigan, California, Wisconsin, Texas, Georgia, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, Minnesota, among others. The angry demonstrations come after wide swaths of the US economy were shut down under the lockdowns, prompting some 30 million Americans to file for unemployment benefits since mid March.
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