Approximately 50 other people gathered outdoors at the Arizona Capitol Building on Friday to protest governor Doug Ducey’s executive order on COVID-19 and to call for an end to the masked orders.
Dawn Garcia, one of the organizers of the occasion, said she and her friend had to plan the occasion after joining a Facebook organization called Great 48, which organized similar occasions this year, and said she saw how other people felt repressed and searched. do anything that can make a difference.
The occasion started around 11 a. m. with the pledge of allegiance followed through a series of speakers, which included Senator Sylvia Allen and Republican Rep. Kelly Townsend.
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Participants said the governor’s executive order was unconstitutional and asked the legislature to hold a special consultation to vote on COVID-19 restrictions and a liability bill that would protect commercial homeowners from lawsuits if they did not require consumers to wear masks.
“It’s time for us to dismantle and get back to normal,” Allen said in an interview with The Republic, who added that closing in March was mandatory due to the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus, but existing knowledge and data about COVID-19 permit businesses and schools to reopen completely.
Positive cases of COVID-19 in Arizona were reported higher at 515 and 28 deaths on Friday, bringing the total number of known cases in the state to 216367 and known deaths to 5587.
Crystal Burge said she raises her children at home. Although COVID-19 restrictions do not apply to your children’s classrooms, the cooperatives and extracurricular activities in which they participate have been canceled. Burge testified that her best school-age son may be right now. attend small cooperatives of organizations, however, their primary school-age children may not.
“Our teachers, who dishonor them, teachers who refuse to return to school,” said Allen, who serves as Senate president for schooling until January 2021, when his term ends. “I won a message for the teachers’ union and to invest in Ed: If you can pass out and gather signatures this COVID crisis, you can go back to school.
Rep. Townsend, who is running for the Arizona Senate, called the young people who were at the helm on the occasion and divided them into three organizations, then asked each of the organizations to vote for an ice cream or extra break and to have someone reveal their decision. .
“It’s a Republican form of government. And democracy is that if I had voted among all of them, most would have won and some of them were necessarily represented,” Townsend said.
He won the ice cream.
Other speakers called for medical freedom, such as the right to try hydroxychloroquine, a questionable drug, and unity within the Republican Party.
Benjamin Benulis, a player and speaker, told The Republic that he believed Arizona and the United States as a total were surpassed through a “corporate kleptocratic” through the pharmaceutical industry. He said the industry was looking at the population, forcing vaccines and medicines. and deprive others of their physical autonomy.
Garcia told the rally participants they needed to gain momentum.
“Faith in worry always, and let’s keep doing it until it’s done,” Garcia said.
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