To remind people to stay at home, two health care workers who work at a hospital in Denver, Colorado stand on theย crosswalk during red lights. This is to block people who are going to a protest called “Operation Gridlock” which callsย for the lockdown measures to be lifted.
Remarkable scene at 12th and Grant, where two healthcare workers from a Denver-area hospital โ they declined to say which or give their names โ are standing in the crosswalk during red lights as a โreminder,โ they say, of why shutdown measures are in place. pic.twitter.com/7xTjXvGN2E
— Chase Woodruff (@dcwoodruff) April 19, 2020
In a tweet by Chase Woodruff (@dcwoodruff), he said that these health care workers stood on the crosswalk as a “reminder” why shutdown measures are in place. These doctors have declined to say their names and what hospital they work at.
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These health care workers have said that they have been treating COVID-19 patients for weeks. According to the tweets, the motorists who have passed by the crosswalk have been “very aggressive.”
Another user, Marc Zenn (@MarcZenn) also shares a video showing how these protesters treated these health care workers.
Two nurses, who have witnessed first hand the toll Covid is taking in Colorado, stood up and peacefully counter protested. Here is how they were treated. I had join them. pic.twitter.com/iJnNcqZxSv
— MarcZenn (@MarcZenn) April 19, 2020
Some Twitter users have also shared other pictures of this scenario. Charles Croucher (@ccroucher9) shares these photos by Alyson McClaran in a tweet.
An incredible series of photos by Alyson McClaran in Denver. She writes โhealth care workers stand in the street in counter-protest to hundreds of people who… demand he stay-at-home order be liftedโ. pic.twitter.com/UjlpFjug4v
— Charles Croucher (@ccroucher9) April 20, 2020
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