The media is inspiring my city too much, in all the wrong ways. From the "protests" (aka trump rallies) rolling through neighborhoods acting like a katamari to pick up their recruits and go block a road somewhere, like they did in Denver. And now it seems we have a pattern of people gathering in parking lots to harass, threaten and throw things at people walking to and from their cars.
Last night was another case of that, which I think makes it 10x worse being that it was already dark outside. They're just terrifying people! I don't know if they're trying to scare people to go home, or fussed about them wearing masks, or not wearing masks. It doesn't matter, we shouldn't be having to call non-emergencies at my job every week over this. :/

I already had a personal run in with crazy people a couple of weeks ago as well. I think it was actually a day or two after my break up also, so I was already having such a hard time. Then I'm walking across my job's parking lot at like 10:30pm, trying to get to the doors which I knew were locked and I had to walkie someone to let me in. Its dark, I'm alone, I'm frustrated and I had these 3 cars swarming around me, blocking me in 3 directions and shouting at me but I couldn't understand what they were saying over their engines roaring. It scared the shit out of me. They of course dispersed when I lifted my phone to dial for help, so the moment didn't last long and I got inside safely.

In what world is this okay? I don't care what you believe in about this virus, and frankly getting sick of all the "passionate" opinions on it as if raging is going to fix anything. But there is literally no reason to act this way. Pointing blame at everyone around you, taking out frustrations, and using "my precious freedom" as an excuse, as if that justifies these actions at all? It is APPALLING to see just how many people are involved in these hateful actions.

And that poor man on the news, I can't remember from which state, who ended up shot down over asking his customer to wear a mask. From what I heard of it, the customer went home first. Then their husband and son literally went out of their way to come back, hunt down this worker and kill him. OVER A PIECE OF CLOTH?
This man did not lock down our country. Neither did I, neither did my customers, or anyone else who's been harassed about all of this.

People like these just need to shut off all their devices and go stare at the sun for a bit.

@glume:
Yeah I'm about an hour and a half from Denver. Ever since that protest popped up there, the one with the health workers in a standoff with a bunch of cars, I feel like it inspired people up here to go absolutely batshit. Maybe this is just coming from the retail perspective (I tend to be exposed to the worst of people on a good day). But its like people start to pick sides from that story and go all out lol

When I first saw the protests, I knew the media was only going to highlight the most ridiculous signs out there. The ones about their haircuts and holocaust nonsense. I figured "there's probably PLENTY of reasonable protest arguments in the crowd that we don't see". Cause of course, I can empathize with the frustrations, even if I don't agree.
But... but the ridiculous ones are what I hear the most in person. And they're so aggressive, like the harassments I mentioned. Things are opening up again finally, all we have to do is wear a mask and we'll have all that freedom that we did before. But people are just getting more violent it seems. A mask is too much to ask lol

I just don't understand how people can have so much hate in their hearts... I get frustrated like everyone else but I also am capable of understanding that my brief personal discomfort is not something I have to take out on someone else. Why? How will this help? What are you hoping to achieve?

@glume:
Aww congratulations in advance! I hope that goes well, even if you end up having to deal with Denver a bit.
I actually just heard from a friend of mine in Loveland saying that they've got flash mobs going on there the same as here. So it definitely isn't just Greeley being harassed lol I hope your friends stay safe from it too. Especially with an unborn child in tow!

@macsen191:
See, if they could all protest like that, sure traffic would suck but at least they aren't harming anyone in the process.
I did have protesters swarm my neighborhood one day doing that, and I can only hope they didn't go block a road or do anything rude to anyone. My mother heard the noise they made and thought it really was some sort of spring parade or something lmao


Maybe we should make a gathering for a wholesome parade, holding up positive signs and instead of honking, some passenger can hold up a stereo playing ice cream music or something happy sounding lol

Oh wow that's absolutely madness.. I'm sorry you've had to deal with all that.. I don't know why people feel the need they have to act like that.. I'm from a small town so I haven't heard of any madness.. well nothing that extreme.. everyone's going through the same thing most of us are staying in doing are bit and some are just using it as a way to just do what ever they like

I hope it's all over soon so we can all get back to some kind of normality.. today our country finds out if we have another 3 weeks extension or not.. and I think it will most likely happen..