Violent "return to masks" protesters attack older man at rally.

[CdnFox]

 

 

More 'peaceful protests' from those who want to see a return to covid restrictions.  Story is they pushed the old guy who was yelling at them, and the fight started with two guys jumping on the older person as you can see. 

You can wear a mask if you want to, nobody's stopping you. Why the hell try to force others to wear one and then get into fights over it.

Justin trudeau divided Canadians like never before over covid in order to win an election and we're still feeling the repercussions.  We're not coming back from this anytime soon.

 

 

[impartialobserver]

This is one instance and so not exactly a plague sweeping the nation. However, the militancy of folks when it comes to being pro-mask or anti-mask is both disheartening and amusing. The older gentlemen could have simply walked past the protesters.. .I know, I did the same thing once in Boise. 

[Legato]

Please not again.....

Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals a surprising statistic: nearly 99% of reported “Covid deaths” each week are not primarily caused by the virus. 

This finding, based on the CDC’s Covid dashboard, indicates that only 1.7% of the 324 Covid deaths registered in the week ending August 19 had the coronavirus as the primary cause of death.

 

https://www.earth.com/news/cdc-only-a-fraction-of-covid-deaths-directly-attributed-to-the-virus/

[CdnFox]

32 minutes ago, impartialobserver said:

This is one instance and so not exactly a plague sweeping the nation. However, the militancy of folks when it comes to being pro-mask or anti-mask is both disheartening and amusing. The older gentlemen could have simply walked past the protesters.. .I know, I did the same thing once in Boise. 

Sure - and the protestors could have not assaulted him. 

And frankly while the violence is thankfully pretty rare at this point, the hatred and division is not and is still rampant out there. on both sides.

At a time when we REALLY needed  our politicians to pull us together as a country and stand by each other ,they pushed us apart and promoted hatred an intolerance.  And the effects continue.

8 minutes ago, Legato said:

Please not again.....

Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals a surprising statistic: nearly 99% of reported “Covid deaths” each week are not primarily caused by the virus. 

This finding, based on the CDC’s Covid dashboard, indicates that only 1.7% of the 324 Covid deaths registered in the week ending August 19 had the coronavirus as the primary cause of death.

 

https://www.earth.com/news/cdc-only-a-fraction-of-covid-deaths-directly-attributed-to-the-virus/

Well we knew that.  The vast vast vast majority of covid deaths were not caused directly by covid especially after the first year.

[impartialobserver]

2 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

pretty rare at this point

Thank you for being realistic.

[Legato]

18 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Sure - and the protestors could have not assaulted him. 

And frankly while the violence is thankfully pretty rare at this point, the hatred and division is not and is still rampant out there. on both sides.

At a time when we REALLY needed  our politicians to pull us together as a country and stand by each other ,they pushed us apart and promoted hatred an intolerance.  And the effects continue.

Well we knew that.  The vast vast vast majority of covid deaths were not caused directly by covid especially after the first year.

I tend to avoid anyone wearing a mask these days.

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, impartialobserver said:

Thank you for being realistic.

I'm always realistic ?

But the fact it's happening at all at this stage gives an idea of how badly divisive it got. And still is for many

[impartialobserver]

8 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

I'm always realistic ?

But the fact it's happening at all at this stage gives an idea of how badly divisive it got. And still is for many

In life, I have realized that there are extremely few instances of something happening 0 times.. they are always a few instances of something no matter how obscure, extreme, or weird. Relatively few instances is essentially the same as zero. Now if it starts occurring every day and in every state/province.. different story. 

[I am Groot]

2 hours ago, Legato said:

I tend to avoid anyone wearing a mask these days.

I was having lunch with a friend the other day when she got a text that her roommate had tested positive for covid. After she'd finished eating she put on a mask - just in case - as a courtesy to others until she could do an antigen test.

Nothing wrong with wearing a mask for a purpose.

[Boges]

If you take a look at Twitter, there definitely seems to be a faction of people that still think COVID is an existential threat. It's amusing to see people that seem to think that wearing a mask in public is a form of public service and those that don't hate the disabled.  

But they're the fringe now. No one, even mainstream liberals, are talking about returning to COVID restrictions. 

[WestCanMan]

On 8/29/2023 at 11:20 AM, impartialobserver said:

This is one instance and so not exactly a plague sweeping the nation. However, the militancy of folks when it comes to being pro-mask or anti-mask is both disheartening and amusing. The older gentlemen could have simply walked past the protesters.. .I know, I did the same thing once in Boise. 

He shouldn't have to. He should be allowed to talk without fear of getting beaten up.

I can guarantee you that if it was Mike Tyson holding that sign the two cowards would have been a lot more 'understanding'.

[myata]

Some countries just can't wait to go over the edge of sanity. A wish come true.