What on earth are you talking about? The people were going to the state capital to protest the shelter in place, and the healthcare workers were in a counter-protest by standing in the street. They were standing there without weapons or threats of violence. Therefore, it is a peaceful protest.
However, I think the main problem is that many people have a very misguided understanding of protest. You don't just decide to make a sign and get a group of people together to take a stand and think that is going to independently make a difference. That isn't how it ever worked. When workers throughout history protested their working conditions, their employers actually needed them, so they were forced to respond to this complaint. There hasn't really been a protest in my lifetime that was comparable to this. These people going to the capital to protest shelter in place orders who are otherwise sitting at home because they were already deemed unessential by the state, what leverage do they really have to protest with?
Nothing, the capital doesn't need to respond to their protest at all because they need absolutely nothing from them at the moment, just like no one needed to respond to antifa's demonstration four years ago. They had no leverage with the institution they were protesting. It was completely empty way of putting themselves in the line of fire for every major media company to do what they wanted and get practically nothing in return outside of the world know that you don't like Trump and in this case, that you don't like the shelter in place. It is a complete waste of time to protest if you don't have some kind of leverage.
The only protest that might be useful is the one that might take place over personal protective equipment shortages because the healthcare workers are necessary, so if they protest, they might end up getting what they want in return. These people protesting the shelter in place, they have no leverage outside threats of violence or the potential to start some kind of civil war because they have absolutely nothing else that the capital wants in exchange for them disbanding their protest. This sort of ignorance towards the function of protest is what would lead to martial law before shelter in place orders ever would, which is another reason I am not a fan of modern empty protests like this.
Which is not bias. It is just a better understanding of the history of the function of protest. I'm not going to go out and waste my time protesting on either side of this issue. But, healthcare workers can actually demonstrate a real witness to the situation in contrast with the people running to the capital that just know what they have learned from watching Fox news and I appreciate this.
