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Over the weekend of April 17-19, 2020, protesters in cities across the U.S. turned out to demonstrate for the loosening of social-distancing restrictions enacted to deal with the COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic, holding that that restrictions were unnecessary or had continued for too long. Many critics of the protests directed blame at U.S. President Donald Trump for encouraging the protests with his tweets calling for residents to liberate their states. According to USA Today: In the aftermath of those demonstrations, many social media posts featured photographs of the protesters and sought to poke fun at, or demonstrate the recklessness of, their actions and attitudes. One such post in the former category highlighted demonstrators holding up signs that read Save My Right to Die, Defund Science, and My Virus, My Choice: Although detractors might argue that the sentiments displayed in the above image are representative of a lack of rationality exhibited in many protest signs and arguments wielded by anti-lockdown demonstrators, this image does not reflect the true content of the protest signs carried at the demonstration it captures. It's an altered version of a photograph of demonstrators taken by Jason Connolly of AFP at the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver during a ReOpen Colorado rally on April 19, 2020. The original versions of the signs read Fear Is the Real Virus, Reopen CO Now, and This 'Cure' Is Deadlier Than Covid:
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