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Saturday Report
Feb. 5th, 2022 04:00 pmWent to the pro-healthcare workers demo. Saw a lot of the antivax side on the way, including on the subway. Found them disturbing in a way I haven’t in the past— they seemed so confident, swaggering around maskless, a lot of them in plaid flannel like they were cosplaying lumberjacks. “COWARDS WEAR MASKS!” a pickup truck broadcasted.
“I feel like we’re in a video game and someone’s yelling into his mike,” observed one of a group who turned out to be on his way to support the healthcare workers. I felt a bit better once we found the counterprotest— considering it had been, as the organizers said, been pulled together in twenty-four hours, it was relatively large.
The cold had drained my battery, so I couldn’t follow what was happening elsewhere downtown, but the convoy seemed to have above-ground traffic tied up downtown, and getting home was a hassle.
“I feel like we’re in a video game and someone’s yelling into his mike,” observed one of a group who turned out to be on his way to support the healthcare workers. I felt a bit better once we found the counterprotest— considering it had been, as the organizers said, been pulled together in twenty-four hours, it was relatively large.
The cold had drained my battery, so I couldn’t follow what was happening elsewhere downtown, but the convoy seemed to have above-ground traffic tied up downtown, and getting home was a hassle.
