PJM: At least four organizers of recent protests in South Carolina have tested positive for coronavirus, prompting one of the main organizers to urge others to get tested.
Several protesters at the marches in downtown Columbia — in addition to similar events in Charleston and Greenville — have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to organizer Lawrence Nathaniel.
“We are asking you please go get tested immediately,” Nathaniel said Sunday on Facebook.
Nathaniel’s previous political work includes organizing for the Democrats’ Tom Steyer and Bernie Sanders campaigns according to his Facebook page.
He is now re-thinking protest strategy. His group was set to hold a statue-related rally but now that’s off.
“It’s time that we must step up our game. What are we doing to step up our game? We’re canceling all our protests,” Nathaniel said. That includes an event that was scheduled for next Saturday, dubbed the “Take Down the Statue” protest.
Fascinating. Nathaniel is one better than the 1,000 so-called health care experts who prioritized protesting over public health (and at the same time wanted to shut down other First Amendment-protected activities such as attending church or President Trump’s rally). read more
It’s hard to tell where the virus begins and where it ends on antifa samples under the microscope.
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Did you hear that Joe Biden says that China will never attack the US because “General Tso’s chicken”?
Hmm…my empathy meter for rioters still reads…ZERO.
Mine reads in the negative category.
Yeah, poor protesters got the flu. I’m sure they’ll recover quicker than the property the burned down and the lives they ruined.
Fuck all of them. Send them to Elmhurst.
Oh no!! now the covid virus is becoming as endemic as the clap among these vermin.
@Braden Lynch, @geoff the aardvark — I’m very selective about when I even turn ON my empathy meter.
So they got the flu. Big shit!
Wait, WHAT!!?!?! That Nathaniel statement left me more perplexed than most incomprehensible statements for those groups – to paraphrase: step up our game by canceling protests? Completely not sure where that is going.
Yeah, well I hope you die.
Canceling protests means at least one thing, the number one app in Google play store will soon be “Statue Take Down”
What the hell IS an ’empathy meter?’ Is that where you start sniffling? But that is one symptom of the Chinese disease!
They can get the common cold, poison ivy, and food poisoning too. I’m not into using this coronavirus to make a counterproductive argument. It’s time to stop dignifying the ginned-up hysteria over a virus with more publicity. Enough damage has been done, and enough people have gone apeshit paranoid over it already. The “flatten the curve” shutdowns should have ended by the end of March.
Why were they tested?
Testing positive doesn’t mean you’re sick.
They need to get checked for tertiary syphilis