Anybody protesting this weekend?

[Alex50]

Who will be protesting and which city will you go to?

BLM are using a serious pandemic as a platform and it's not very helpful to the cause. They have only really damaged it. Being branded as a racist for not supporting the cause AT this moment during a pandemic & believing that all lives do matter. The message they send out is BLM more, I completely understand this is not the correct message, but lots of people don't. I just hope there isn't a second wave.

[quote JimMaxwellantheshippingforcast]@MorganKitten

The rule at the time was gatherings of not more than two people not from the same household.

At the time there was no limit on the time you could travel for exercise/picnic/sun bathing, so again well within the rules.
Going to the beach as a family and sitting closer than 2 metres to another family unit is a pretty strange thing to do.

Also, you are aware of camera angles making things appear closer/further away than they really are?

Neither of these activities were organised centrally.[/quote]
Camera angles can do that, but then posts on Facebook people I know posted show exactly how close people were.
Those who had street parties and went to the beach is just as bad as those protesting.. and as you pointed out when it was smaller groups so those who were meeting people during that time were in the wrong.

no way.

No I won’t.
I don’t agree with knee-jerk protesting which seems to result in needless vandalism, which hasn’t been properly thought through by actually reading history books.
I want to visit my elderly, frail mum who I haven’t seen since lockdown and I don’t want to spread anything to her.

If you are (for either side) please don't, it's not safe.

Yep, I am.

I’m up for a day out!

When I got on the bus last week I could see the driver was really grateful I was standing up for him.

I hope I get some better phone stuff: I couldn’t get a good enough view of the horse bolting - I hope it happens again! You should have seen the police’s faces when we were telling them they were scum - you know, they shoot hundreds of people every year here.

This time we’ll be toppling more of those old statues. Some old man called Guy something at a hospital - he kept loads of slaves. So did Queen Victoria. And it’s all over Twitter how Winston Churchill liked Fawlty Towers.

I hope I don’t get Covid (although I’ve bought 100 disposable masks off eBay - they were really cheap!) but if I do people like me get it really mildly so I’ll still be able to go out and about and visit people. And come back and protest next week too.

This is much better than clapping for carers - that is so two months ago.

In support of JK Rowling, you mean?

IrmaFayLear - loved your post

If the protest has been called off, will people still go?

No.

I think destroying statues and hiding history is awful. How can future generations understand about what happened to people if it is all erased and destroyed?

I also think the message that the protests are about will be diluted by the fact many people think it’s crazy to be doing it at this time with a pandemic to be mindful of and most people more desperate for lockdown to be over and their children back in school.

In some ways by highlighting race it keeps that separation continuing between people. I’m pretty oblivious to someone’s colour or race in day to day life. People are people. I’d not be influenced by race if I was choosing someone to employ, for example.

No. I've got better things to do with my time.

Irmafaylear hilarious 😂

Maybe.
There’s one in the nearest large town.
The dc were so upset by George Flyod’s death and wanted an outlet for their feelings.
I’m undecided.

@CoronaIsComing

No because I want my child to go back to school at some point this year and idiot protestors will be spreading COVID and putting the dates back even further 😡

I bet Boris is rubbing his hands with glee over this, certainly he can use it to move the blame from his incompetent.

I don’t think Boris will be rubbing his hands with glee for one minute
Increase costs on police budget
Spending a fortune trying to keep companies in business or people in work
I can’t see why he would want an increase in infection putting the country under even more strain

No get to fuck! In the middle of a global pandemic and encouraging nasty divisive politics. Well done you.

No, because I'm sick of seeing a genuine cause being perverted by anarchists just wanting to cause destruction and give the police a good kicking.

Sadly not. But if I didn't have a knee problem that stops me walking more than about 200m, I'd be on the train to London already.

I really hope not.

I support anyone’s right to peaceful protest in normal times but mass gatherings at the moment are putting other people’s lives at risk.

No OP

Are you?

@MorganKitten its jyst not comparabke to the crowds seen at BLM marches , surely you can see that

@LakieLady can you explain why ? They had a protest last weekend, is it going to be every Saturday, what do you think will change ?

Nope.

Last weekend there was one in my local town (don't know if there will be one this weekend), but I did not attend, or know anyone who went.

Honestly, attending a protest in the midst of a global pandemic seems... foolish, and dare I say it...? Virtue signalling...? "Look at me, out here, risking my life and others, to show I really care!"

We had one in our town, a few weeks' back. I'm black but didn't go. Due to Covid, why would I want to risk my black life on a cause that wants to save my black life? I'm sorry, but I'm not a martyr. Much to people's disgust!

If I die from Covid, due to exposure at these protests, who will look after my children??

Better yet, when I saw the footage, it was full of young ones taking selfies while kneeling although it was very peaceful.

If the Covid wasn't around, I would probably have attended.. without a phone!!