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In May 2020, as demonstrators in various parts of the U.S. continued to advocate for the lessening of social-distancing measures and forced business closures enacted to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, social media users circulated the following photograph, said to have been taken at an end the lockdown protest: Many viewers found the protester's sign equating the mandatory wearing of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as face masks to muzzles worn by dogs or slaves to be insulting, and they questioned whether this image was authentic or whether the wording of the sign had been digitally altered. But the photograph is indeed real, and was taken at a protest on May 15, 2020, against California's stay-at-home order staged at the Humboldt County courthouse in Eureka, California. Kym Kemp's Redheaded Blackbelt blog features the original photograph, along with a snapshot of another demonstrator holding the same sign. Gretha Stenger, the woman in the red scarf pictured above, apologized afterwards and maintained that the sign was not hers and had been handed to her: We note that the function of a muzzle is to prevent the wearer from being able to talk, bite, and or eat, none of which is precluded (literally or figuratively) by the wearing of a face mask used to minimize the transmission of infection.
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