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Over the weekend of April 17-20, 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. Those protests encompassed the display of numerous signs and messages that seemed so outrageous in their sentiments as to leave many viewers who encountered them afterwards on social media wondering whether they were real. (Most were in fact real, although a few were fake.) One such example of this phenomenon was the following, an image of an automobile displaying a message on its rear window reading Your health is not more important than my liberties! The license plate on the car appears to be the Keep Kids Safe variant of vehicle plates issued in Connecticut, and the state capital of Hartford was the scene of a Rally to Reopen protest on April 20, as reported by the Hartford Courant: One slightly different aspect of the Hartford protest was that it primarily comprised demonstrators driving around in their automobiles rather than gathering in person: The vehicle bearing the Your health is not more important than my liberties! message was in fact part of that Rally to Reopen procession in Hartford, having been captured in pictures by photojournalist Brad Horrigan that appeared in both the Courant's reporting on the demonstration and in an separate opinion piece about the protest:
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