Coronavirus Protest Leader Skips Protest After Catching Coronavirus

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'I will take a stand every day until we are a free people again,' she wrote (while self-quarantining at home) (via toofab)

The protest group was set up to oppose North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper's stay-at-home order, and Whitlock helped organize a weekly protest march in downtown Raleigh.But on Sunday, she revealed to the group that she was an "asymptomatic COVID19 positive patient", and thus was being "forced" to quarantine, which violated her First Amendment rights.

"It has been insinuated by others that if I go out, I could be arrested for denying a quarantine order," she added, so decided it was best to stay put. "I'm not responsible for other people's choices. I'm for personal liberty," she added. "Everyone has their own decisions to make. If they want to come, that's up to them. I'm going to be there. I'm not afraid of the virus. I'm more afraid of losing my constitutional rights and losing my livelihood than I am of the virus.

"It was never handled as something as serious as what our governor is perpetrating this as," Smith said.

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