Click to enlarge — Alyson McClaran
People protesting against the stay-at-home orders in Colorado were confronted by a man and woman dressed in medical uniforms – apparently issuing a silent rebuke to participants…
Now the photojournalist behind the images tells the BBC what happened that day when “two worlds collided”…
They “stood their ground“, Ms McClaran said, even as some demonstrators shouted and hurled racist comments at the pair.
“It was honestly heartbreaking to see,” she said…
Yes, I’m aware the ignoranus brigade that fronts for Trump’s idiocy represents a small percentage of Americans. That doesn’t make their mob mentality any less dangerous.
A couple of brave folks.
Eideard 
The anti-quarantine protests seem spontaneous. But behind the scenes, a powerful network is helping. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-conservative-networks-backing-anti-quarantine-protests/2020/04/22/da75c81e-83fe-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html
he protests erupting over coronavirus restrictions are often coordinated and backed by longtime conservative activists, whose organizations were built with funding from Republican megadonors.
“Many supposedly grassroots reopen sites are tied to one pro-gun lobbyist : Sites protesting the COVID-19 lockdown are an astroturf campaign, researchers say.” https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/many-supposedly-grass-roots-reopen-sites-are-tied-to-one-pro-gun-lobbyist/
The Convention of States project launched in 2015 with a high-dollar donation from the family foundation of Robert Mercer, a billionaire hedge fund manager and Republican patron. It boasts past support from two members of the Trump administration — Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Ben Carson, secretary of housing and urban development.
It also trumpets a prior endorsement from Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida and a close Trump ally who is pursuing an aggressive plan to reopen his state’s economy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-conservative-networks-backing-anti-quarantine-protests/2020/04/22/da75c81e-83fe-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html